Bain and GST Steel: The...

Kimberley Strassel, Wall St. Journal This week the Obama campaign debuted its attack on Bain Capital, the private-equity firm Mitt Romney founded. Its two-minute ad purports to tell the story of GS Technologies, a Kansas City-based Bain investment that went bankrupt in 2001.To hear the...

Romney’s Clintone...

E.J. Dionne, The New Republic WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney was against Bill Clinton before he was for him.There was Romney, campaigning Tuesday in Iowa, praising the nation's last Democratic president and casting him as far superior to the current incumbent."Almost a...

A Tale of Two Commencem...

Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal Two days after Mitt Romney delivered the commencement speech at Liberty University, the big evangelical Christian school founded by Jerry Falwell, Barack Obama tutored graduates at Barnard College, the intensely liberal all-women's school...

Tea Party Rises Again...

Josh Kraushaar, National Journal For those who think Sen. Richard Lugar's defeat was primarily attributable to running a weak campaign or for living outside of Indiana for decades, I've got one number in dissent: 38 percent. That's the shockingly low percentage of the vote...

The College Education R...

Thomas Friedman, New York Times Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explaining how the new interactive online education company that he cofounded, Coursera, hopes to revolutionize higher education by allowing students...

Mitt’s Simplistic...

Greg Sargent, Washington Post Mitt Romney released a new Web video today attacking Obama on the economy that’s generating a lot of discussion. “Millions of Americans are struggling under the Obama economy,” the video’s narrator says. “Here...

The Public’s Chan...

Charlie Cook, Natl Jnrl By Charlie Cook "Off to the Races" is Charlie Cook's indispensable weekly column on national politics appearing in National Journal Daily.It's unlikely that same-sex marriage is going to push the economy out of the dominant role in this...

Jerry Brown vs. Chris C...

William McGurn, Wall Street Journal In his January 2011 inaugural address, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared it a "time to honestly assess our financial condition and make the tough choices." Plainly the choices weren't tough enough: Mr. Brown has just announced that he...

Romney Is Short on Spec...

Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star Republicans say they're eager for the presidential campaign to turn away from "distractions" and focus instead on the economy. Someone should warn them that if they're not careful, they might get their wish.It is true that...

The ‘Essence̵...

Dennis Byrne, Chicago Tribune While the inevitability of same-sex marriage now is a given — the only question remaining is when — I'm still trying to locate the why.When President Barack Obama last week endorsed same-sex marriage, the perception grew that the only...