Over the past week there rsquo s been a hardening consensus that the Republican majority in the U S House with or without the blessing of Speaker John Boehner will force a shutdown of the federal government as part of a last-ditch effort to stop implementation of ldquo Obamacare rdquo the Aff

The libertarian magazine Reason released a Christmas tree of a poll on Tuesday with dozens of questions on government spending U S policy toward Syria Facebook rsquo s stewardship of personal data and other topics on which people mostly agree with the editors of Reason magazine Among the orname

As polls predicted Public Advocate Bill de Blasio easily won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City on Tuesday hovering just above the 40 percent needed to avoid a run-off for the party nomination The New York Times reports that party leaders are urging William Thompson who finished s

What do you get for the person who has no one The U S Census Bureau reminds us that next Sunday is the beginning of Unmarried and Single Americans Week a nod to the 44 percent of adults who do not have a spouse The Census notes that unmarried Americans are forming an increasingly large voting bl

Today is the first round of the New York mayor rsquo s race which got more national attention than usual because of the possibility that former congressman and smutty-photo tweeter Anthony Weiner would win inspiring stories about how Americans like redemption stories and are getting more Europea

Welcome to Un Conventional Wisdom a new blog on the America website Un Conventional Wisdom will focus on American politics offering observations on current issues and presenting original research UCW will not be a tout sheet There are already scores of pundits who are in the habit of making pr

We are happy to have this post-election analysis from Robert David Sullivan who blogged about the presidential and vice-presidential debates for America You can read his blog on politics and TV here and his analysis of the 2008 election nbsp here -- Tim Reidy The most striking aspect of the 201

Once again we are pleased to have debate analysis from Robert David Sullivan My quick analysis before diving into Twitter and the blogosphere Once again Moderate Mitt made it through a presidential debate without getting unmasked or unmoored by President Barack Obama Romney used his closing s

Once again we are pleased to have debate analysis from Robert David Sullivan My quick analysis before diving into Twitter and the blogosphere I suspect that President Obama will get a little jump in the polls over the next few days but mainly as a reaction to the ldquo Wow Romney might actual