A plain blog about politics

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...

A fascinating conversation in the Oval Office, with the president, Bob Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman. It begins with clear evidence that Nix...

Jamelle Bouie argues today that Republicans may well win the presidency without actually changing much or offering new ideas. I think tha...

If you want to know why the Pennsylvania plan of rigging the Electoral College by having Republican majorities in the Keystone State change...

Happy Birthday to Teri Garr , 65. Here's one for you: how much better are Terri Garr, Cloris Leachman, and Madeline Kahn than Gene Wilde...

How do parties change? Over the weekend, my Salon column was about the GOP candidate rollouts last week, and how unimpressive they were o...

The Catch goes to Steve Kornacki, who points out that Newt Gingrich and Republicans in general have never owned up to being dead wrong about...