For much of the year, both Democrats and Republicans have tried to avoid looking like big spenders, disavowing earmarks and trying to outflank one another on the issue of fiscal discipline — because that’s what they believe voters want to hear. A comprehensive new study of voter preferences, More…
Tax cuts are generally less stimulative than spending measures, but among tax cuts, a holiday or slashing of the payroll tax is one of the best options, the Congressional Budget Office reports. So why did President Obama suggest cutting investment and research and development taxes for businesses, rather than More…
A lot of the focus on campaign spending during this electoral cycle has centered on outside conservative groups, partly because they are new and partly because they’ve announced they’ll raise and spend so much. Democratic-leaning independent groups, however, once dominated the game of using the tax code in novel ways More…
When most people hear Watergate, after Nixon, the first two names that come to mind are Woodward and Bernstein. The two Washington Post reporters are largely credited with breaking the scandal and taking down Richard Nixon’s presidency. But W. Joseph Campbell, author of the new book “Getting It Wrong: Ten More…
Now that the ethically dubious publication of some of his private emails has derailed Dave Weigel’s tenure at The Washington Post by raising questions about his ability to report effectively on the conservative movement, we thought it would be a good time to highlight just how effective Weigel can be. More…
The Washington Post editorial page is a perennial bugaboo for progressive blogs and think tanks — with editor Fred Hiatt taking fire for, among many choices, his selection of Sarah Palin to opine on climate change, his defense of George W. Bush’s handling of prewar intelligence and his More…
The Washington Post is touting a poll showing “muted expectations” amongst the public for what President Obama’s nuclear-security summit will achieve.
Overall, 40 percent of those polled are convinced the negotiations will result in tighter controls, and 56 percent are not so or not at all confident. Moreover, four
Michael Calderone has the story — next month I’ll be taking my reporting from TWI to The Washington Post. I want to take a moment to point out that the sort of journalism I do wouldn’t have been possible without TWI. There’s more coverage of conservative politics (especially movement More…
The Washington Post sits down with the CIA director, who has lots of great things to say about how the CIA is disrupting al-Qaeda:
Panetta credited an increasingly aggressive campaign against al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies, including more frequent strikes and better coordination with Pakistan. He called it “the most
I had hoped never ever to return to “No Apology: The Case For American Greatness.” But there’s a clear narrative forming about the Obama administration’s foreign policy on display from Robert Kagan in The Washington Post today, occasioned by the current U.S.-Israel dust-up:
While displaying more continuity than
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