Greece Must Go – ...

Nouriel Roubini, Slate The Greek euro tragedy is reaching its final act: It is clear that either this year or next, Greece is highly likely to default on its debt and exit the eurozone. Postponing the exit until after the June election with a new government committed to a variant of the...

For Dems, Bush Is to Bl...

Byron York, DC Examiner In the early days of the Obama administration, a lot of people, including some Republicans, weren't much bothered by the new president's tendency to blame his predecessor for the nation's problems. After all, Barack Obama did inherit a mess from...

Obama’s Career-Lo...

Jim Geraghty, National Review I would underline that Obama is using a familiar strategy because it’s not really clear that he’s ever had to use any other one. Once he won the Democratic primary for his State Senate seat in 1996, he had the seat for life, representing...

Targeting Rev. Wright W...

Joe Klein, Time There’s a front page story in the New York Times about the possibility that a right-wing Super PAC will launch a racially charged attack against President Obama centering on his relationship with the dreadful Reverend Jeremiah Wright. This is the campaign that...

Facts Show Democrats Ar...

Jennifer Granholm, Politico I delivered the faculty graduation address last weekend at the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. It’s one of the nation’s best and the reason is its emphasis on rigorous data analysis. Any public...

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...

Discouraged Dems May Me...

Bruce Walker, AT Most polls, Rasmussen excepted, continue to show that neither presidential candidate is pulling away from the other and that close Senate races have shifting leads.  Primary elections, however, are showing a very different situation — and it is voters who...

Can California Be Fixed...

Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Recently, I was driving down pot-holed, two-lane, non-freeway 101 near Monterey (unchanged since the 1960s) when the radio blared that on a recent science test administered to public schools, California scored 47th in the nation. As I looked at the...

The ESPN Man...

David Brooks, New York Times Two of the nation’s smartest analysts have just come out with reports on how the presidential election looks six months out. Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution argues that at this point President Obama has a modest advantage over Mitt Romney....

What Wisconsin Says Abo...

Shikha Dalmia, Reason Shikha Dalmia | May 8, 2012Those trying to oust Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkerin a June 5 recall election are portraying him as a wild-eyed,Koch-brothers-controlled, right-wing ideologue hell-bent ondestroying unions. In reality, Walker is more like a...