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(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 07, 2014
Vox com the new journalism website headed by ex-Washington Post writer Ezra Klein formally opened for business on Sunday with a lead story mission statement called ldquo How Politics Makes Us Stupid rdquo It rsquo s a clever way to challenge and flatter readers at the same time Thousands of pe
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
April 03, 2014
This week the Supreme Court weakened limits on campaign contributions and mega campaign contributor Charles G Koch wrote a Wall Street Journal column about all the hurt he rsquo s suffered as a fighter for ldquo free society rdquo Koch accuses his critics of ldquo character assassination rdqu
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
March 31, 2014
We rsquo re seven months from the 2014 midterms giving us time to cycle through a few dozen theories on what the election will be about The Republicans still hope to capitalize on discontent with the Affordable Care Act but TPM rsquo s Dylan Scott wonders whether this ldquo election elixir rdquo
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
March 27, 2014
The U S population shifted away from small towns and toward major metropolitan areas from 2012 to 2013 according to data released by the Census Bureau on Thursday The annual Census report is a reminder that the Republican Party which has been doing worse and worse in big cities needs to move to
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(Un)Conventional Wisdom
March 27, 2014
There rsquo s got to be a study somewhere comparing styles of playing Monopoly to political party affiliation I can imagine a lot of grant proposals after this week rsquo s announcement that Hasbro is polling players on which ldquo house rule rdquo to add to Monopoly instruction manuals nbsp The
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
March 25, 2014
(Un)Conventional Wisdom from Robert D. Sullivan on the fight over fighting poverty.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
March 24, 2014
Gun-rights activists come out forcefully against Obama's choice for surgeon general.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
March 21, 2014
The Cook Political Report has control of the U S Senate up for grabs this November see map or analysis As of Wednesday Maine was the only state favored to vote for a different party than it did in the 2012 presidential election thanks to moderate Republican incumbent Susan Collins Among the s
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
March 19, 2014
It’s hard to separate the popular belief that government is too big, and getting bigger, from perceptions of what the government does with its money.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
March 18, 2014
March is turning out to be a month for underdogs Last week the Republicans came from behind to win a special congressional election in Florida even with a former lobbyist as their candidate Today Politico rsquo s Ben White and Maggie Haberman suggest that there rsquo s finally a backlash to the e