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Monday Reads

Should you desire to get caught up on your political reading, here are several “must reads” to start the week: Walter Shapiro has a tough...

Where’s George?

For 20 of the last 31 years a Republican president has occupied the Oval Office. Two of those presidents – the first and second George...

Mitt’s Errors

In tennis they call what Mitt Romney has been doing for the last couple of weeks “unforced errors.” In football, Romney has been...

Dumping the Veep

John Nance Garner is mostly forgotten now days. If he’s remembered for anything it was for his alleged pity comment that the “vice...

Following More Money

It is rare – very rare – that a state Supreme Court rises up on its hind legs and says to the United States Supreme Court we think you...

Assessing the Recess

Republicans and many conservative legal authorities are outraged by President Obama’s recent recess appointments to install Richard...

Tucson

A year ago this weekend Tucson, Arizona was at the center of the world. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a vibrant up-and-coming moderate...

Confidence Men

So many things we associate with the modern American presidency, including its imperial nature, where created by Franklin D. Roosevelt...

It Gets Worse

Has there even been a time when the United States Congress ranked lower with the American public or when dysfunction more profoundly...

Dark Horse

The well-quoted Larry Sabato, the political guru at the University of Virginia, has begun talking openly about the possibility that the...

Like Father…

It is not much talked about in the current Republican Party primary frenzy, but Mitt Romney’s father, George, the one-time Governor of...

Kennedy

The abbreviated presidency and unfinished life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is, 48 years after his murder in Dallas, one enduring subject...

Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin has covered the civil rights movement, produced some of the best long form journalism in recent times for The New Yorker,...

Historic Politics

Thomas E. Dewey, the one-time mob busting New York City prosecutor and later governor of New York, made three different runs at the White...

Margin Call

One particularly chilling scene in the outstanding new film Margin Call takes place when the CEO of a big banking house, played with cool...

No Surprise Here

At its birthing the Super Committee seemed to have it all – bi-partisan endorsement from both houses of Congress, senior and generally...

Super Committee

You thought perhaps that Thanksgiving was all about Grandma’s cranberry relish, Aunt Mae’s pumpkin pie and a nap on the sofa while a...

Tony LaRussa

The World Series winning manager was on David Letterman’s show last night – he’s earned a victory lap – talking about his unlikely last...

Prophets Without Honor

I have always thought it was a statement of the character, decency and political astuteness of Harry Truman that he developed a genuine...

Meltdown

The sport page headline in the Boston Herald this morning: “The Choke’s on Us.” Herald columnist John Tomase captured the full agony of...

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