Two Big Headlines in Search of a Common Message

The papers yesterday screamed the news as the two stories broke almost simultaneously. In one plot, the internal watchdog at the Securities and Exchange Commission found that SEC regulators had bungled numerous opportunities to catch Bernie Madoff as he engineered what became a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, leaving More…

In List of Presidents: Bush Worse Than Buchanan

John Morton Blum, esteemed professor emeritus at Yale University and one-time teacher of George W. Bush, has spent a lifetime studying presidential politics. So an assessment he made this week as his former pupil navigates the twilight of his White House tenure stands out as particularly damning.

“The Bush presidency More…