Honest Graft

Jay Rosen has written a thoughtful analysis  regarding the apparent invulnerability of the Trump campaign to the traditional gauntlet of med...

A month or two ago, Marco Rubio became the hot, in-the-know pick to win the Republican presidential nomination. This week, it's Ted Cruz...

(I'm sorry about the headline. Well, a little bit sorry. Maybe.) Politico reports today on the efforts of the Cruz campaign to build ...

While overseas at an international summit, Barack Obama made some dismissive remarks yesterday about Republican presidential candidates'...

I direct the attention of anyone entertained by political spectacle to the Louisiana governor's race, where the Republican candidate, U....

The relatively uneventful Democratic presidential debate on Saturday night, occurring amidst a relatively uneventful Democratic presidential...

This Washington Post article on the state of the Republican race from the "insider" perspective has attracted considerable commen...

I have a piece up at the Monkey Cage  today, explaining why some Republican candidates bashed Hillary Clinton more than others in last night...

Today's New York Times contains an article reporting that Right to Rise, a super PAC supporting Jeb Bush's presidential candidacy, ...

This BuzzFeed article on the state of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign received a fair amount of attention late last week. It is ce...

Quote #1: "We need to let every member contribute, not once they earn their stripes, but now. The committees should take the lead in dr...

This Atlantic piece by Molly Ball—headlined "Are Liberals Losing the Culture Wars?"—interprets the results of scattered off-year ...

An interesting article by  Cecilia Hyunjung Mo  of Vanderbilt points out that Asian-Americans have collectively shifted from a predominantl...

After the 2012 election, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus acted on behalf of the RNC to seize control over the schedule...

You may have been sleeping, but the Senate voted overnight to approve the budget agreement hammered out earlier this week by the White House...

The news media decided that Marco Rubio was the winner of last night's debate, and Jeb Bush the hands-down loser, after only about 25 mi...

Yesterday, Ohio Governor John Kasich publicly expressed exasperation  with the state of a Republican presidential nomination contest in whic...

A recent analysis by Matthew Yglesias notes that the current Democratic hold on the White House masks much deeper partisan weakness at the ...

This   National Review   Online piece by Henry Olsen compares Jeb Bush to Rip Van Winkle. Olsen argues that Bush's presidential campai...

The three top stories of the day so far in the political media: 1. Continuing morning-after analysis of Hillary Clinton's marathon app...