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Yet another anonymous commenter asks: Does Hillary Clinton display any skills at 'Presidenting' that set her apart from Biden, Cuo...

I completely endorse the distinction that Ed Kilgore makes but appears to feel isn't really necessary between "clear the field...

Happy Birthday to Robert Downey, Jr. , 48. Surprised how many of his movies I've seen; I count at least nine movies he's been in tha...

I'll go with the end of the ban on women in combat. As with the demise of DADT, this is one that isn't ever going to be reversed, an...

TapirBoy1 asks: To what extent does an HRC presidential run pre-winnow the field before the Iowa Caucus? (Slightly edited for clarity) ...

Happy Birthday to Sheila E ., 53. And a bit of the good stuff: 1. Matt Yglesias David Weigel looks back at twenty years of Peterson def...

I was going to wait to ask this one, since we're a couple of years away from learning her answer, but since it's on the front page o...

There are essentially two things good about Political Animals , the recent six-episode miniseries on USA. Make that three things: six-episod...

Excellent reporting from Aaron Blake, who notices that all seven of the candidates that Bill Clinton has endorsed in Democratic primaries t...

Regular readers will know that I'm a big fan of presidential scholar Matthew Dickinson, but there's almost nothing I agree with in h...

Bruce Bartlett pines conservatively, so to speak, for President Hillary : For one thing, given her disastrous experience with health care r...

Still working from Ezra Klein's interesting post about interest groups and health care reform ... A couple of other thoughts about the...

Catching up on some of the items in the news this week...Andrew Sullivan minimized the importance of health care fabulist Betsy McCaughey...