According to an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Marvin Olasky of the Christian magazine World, has a new interview with former GOP House majority leader Dick Armey (below) in which the Texas Republican and Tea Party Svengali says that Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton would “bond” over wine and cigars while sharing stories about their …
The illustrator Zina Saunders is the daughter of Norm Saunders, the prolific illustrator whose work first captivated me in the early sixties when I bought my first pack of the strangely gripping Mars Attacks! cards. Zina has turned out to be a pretty wonderful political caricaturist. As you can see form the cover of the …
At the start of the financial crisis in 2007, my friend Chris Napolitano noted that the from the public’s point of view, the Indispensable Man had taken himself out of the battle. He was talking about Eliot Spitzer, whose work as Attorney General in exposing misdeeds on Wall Street certainly had certainly positioned him as …
“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now,” President Obama recently told a group of Democratic donors in Massachusetts, “and facts and science and argument [do] not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country …
My friend Josh Green of The Atlantic created quite a splash this past week by revealing that Rich Iott(pictured, second from right), the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio’s 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments. As Josh reports, Iott was …
Dahlia Lithwick has an excellent article in Slate about the changing nature of privacy. There’s less for you and me, and more for corporations and groups. “Once upon a time,” she writes, “you had to be a person to assert a right to personal privacy. But more and more it seems that the demand for …
The once and perhaps future governor of California Jerry Brown is the latest public figure to become entangled in a Loose Lips imbroglio. As reported in The Los Angeles Times, candidate Brown or one of his associates can be heard speaking in a private conversation inadvertently captured by voicemail, calling his Republican opponent Meg Whitman …
The above chart is from a paper by Michael Norton of Harvard and Dan Ariely of Duke (the author of Predictably Irrational whom I had the privilege of interviewing in January 2009). Ariely does incredible work showing the difference between the way things are and the way we perceive them to be, and he and …
Reading in The Washington Post the excerpt from Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward‘s new book, I was reminded of nothing so much as –me! In The Coup, I described the people Vice President Godwin Pope saw gathered on the floor of the House of Representatives as he sat on the dais awaiting the president’s State of …