Category Archives: Politics

It will be interesting to hear, once it is determined, who the new pope is. But that doesn’t mean we have to move all the news anchors to Rome for the time being with an eye on the chimney, get all giddy about medieval methods of choosing him, and cover this wall to wall as [...]

For political junkies, it’s the tweetable event equal to the Super Bowl. It hardly ever has earthshaking news, never succeeds in convincing the out of power party and is found by many TV watchers the most boring night of primetime each year. But the State of the Union is irresistible as political theater, just for [...]

It felt like I should go down and see the inaugural today since I’m a D.C. resident. But “seeing” is not quite what happened. Amid the crowds, the immense security plan (in which city buses were used more to block streets than to transport people), and the panoply of cheap event souvenirs (condoms to bookmarks), [...]

What a surprise that the one peron everybody wants to talk to about the Gen. Patreus situation, Paula Broadwell, has apparently been holing up in her brother’s house here in my Mt. Pleasant neighborhood in D.C. But there are worse places, right? For a jogger such as yourself it’s very handy to the many trails [...]

Most presidential elections were not like they way they are now. They’d count the votes and announce them over the radio, or print them in the newspaper, or scrawl the winner’s name in a public square. They didn’t have a Magic Wall and if they did they would have dunked it until it drown. The [...]