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Last Updated: November 11, 2013

For all the Veterans Day observances, I'm left wondering if the rest of us have enough skin in the game. In my most ...

Last Updated: November 7, 2013

I'm now blogging at US News & World Report on Centrist-related topics. My first post compares our current politic...

Last Updated: November 4, 2013

The Richmond Times-Dispatch opted not to endorse any candidate in the Virginia governor's race for the first time "in...

Last Updated: October 28, 2013

Lunch with Ken Block is an experience. I swung through Rhode Island this summer, and made a point of visiting the fo...

Last Updated: October 24, 2013

John G. Taft, relative of President William Howard Taft and grandson of Senator Robert Taft, wrote a wonderful op-ed ...

Last Updated: October 21, 2013

Some policy wonks (like me) have been looking at institutional reforms as a way to ease Congressional gridlock. Two ...

Last Updated: October 16, 2013

It's bigger than you think. And more interesting. The results of their poll are here. The pollsters write: "An e...

Last Updated: October 15, 2013

My Dartmouth colleague Russ Muirhead and I have proposed the following relatively simple compromise in an op-ed in Po...

Last Updated: October 12, 2013

What more can I say? A new Gallup Poll finds that a solid majority of Americans feel that the Republicans and Democr...