Obama’s Long Game
Since the Democratic Party’s primary process began in 2007, Andrew Sullivan has been arguing that no politician is better at playing the long game than Barack Obama. Here is the argument in distilled form.
Since the Democratic Party’s primary process began in 2007, Andrew Sullivan has been arguing that no politician is better at playing the long game than Barack Obama. Here is the argument in distilled form.
Feel like the Obama sheen has worn off and you’re looking for a new messiah? Elizabeth Warren may be that special someone.
The website Nippon.com recently carried an interview with former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone where one of Japan’s most distinguished politicians opined on the problems with the current political predicament Japan finds itself in. As a previous prime minister, as well as someone who has been around the block a few more times than I have, [...]
Just a great piece by Republican outcast David Frum on what’s wrong with the GOP. Terrific and terrifying.
Hard to understand what the Occupy Wall Street protesters are so upset about.
Lemony Snicket went and observed the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. Scroll down.
Hilarious dubs of politicians saying completely nonsensical things.
Michael Lewis investigates just how bad local finances are in California (spoiler alert: real bad): To understand the regional economies, [Meredith Whitney] had to understand how state and local governments were likely to behave, and to understand this she needed to understand their finances. Thus she had spent two unlikely years researching state and local [...]
If the conformity becomes a matter of mutually supporting status based on marker-opinions (‘good and clever people believe x, stupid and wicked people believe y’) then the effect is magnified. Supporting the ‘European project’, in all its harmonising glory, has long since become what ‘good people’ support and only mad folk and cranks (or worse) [...]
Anand Girdharadas at the New York Times: Many liberals I know take for granted that anyone conservative is either racist or under-informed. People who run companies like Amazon operate as though it never it occurred to them that it could have been them crawling through the aisles. And the people who run labor unions possess [...]