Catholic Press Association award-winning politics blog (Un)Conventional Wisdom, by Robert D. Sullivan, is back.

Thanks for reading Un Conventional Wisdom during its first eight months And if you have discovered it more recently please check out our archives I am taking a couple of months off from the blog to concentrate on some long-form projects and take care of personal matters such as finding a new

Stephen Colbert is at first glance an odd replacement for CBS talk-show host David Letterman When he drops the know-nothing character of the soon-to-end The Colbert Report as he will for his new show Colbert is sincere and quite passionate about social-justice issues Patrick R Manning explor

What is democracy without people waiting in line for hours?

The New York Times suggests that President Barack Obama rsquo s popularity with younger Americans is not enough to inspire a new generation of candidates for public office nbsp Jason Horowitz reports that 70 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds consider community service to be ldquo honorable rdquo b

This was sort of a Women rsquo s Week in American politics The Paycheck Fairness Act got its day in the U S Senate but couldn rsquo t get the 60-vote supermajority to overcome a Republican filibuster And new signs of Hillary Clinton rsquo s inevitability as the next Democratic nominee who else c

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom from our politics blogger Robert D. Sullivan

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

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

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