Enik Rising

I saw "Lincoln" the other night. This is a very good and very rich film -- it contains a great deal of detail, both in the scri...

A student recently interviewed me for a paper she was writing about the similarities and differences between vampires and politicians. I kin...

Here's another entry for the "Problems Obama Doesn't Actually Have" file. An article in today's Denver Post tries to...

Scott Lemieux has a nice review up of George Edwards' new book On Deaf Ears , which it sounds like I'll need to read/assign soon. I...

Anyone else noticing some similarities between the recent Rush Limbaugh attack on Sandra Fluke and the arrest of Martin Luther King, Jr., in...

Bill Keller's Sunday NYT op/ed suggesting that Obama drop Joe Biden from the ticket and replace him with Hillary Clinton strikes me as...

I thought we were done with speculation that Hillary Clinton would challenge Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, but th...

Chris Matthews: In the above interview, Chris Matthews mourns the lack of a narrative in Obama's bid for a second term: There is n...

If you want to read some first-rate hackery, be sure to check out Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen's op/ed in today's Wall Street Journa...

Drew Westen is once again filling valuable column inches in the New York Times with cheap pop-psychological claims about parties and polit...

I want to highlight two recent dialogues that have been fascinating and quite enlightening for people interested in politics. The first is E...

Yoni Appelbaum , writing in the Atlantic , argues that William Jennings Bryan single-handedly created a double-dip recession for the United ...

A busy schedule and a tight budget unfortunately kept me from attending last weekend's Clinton '92 campaign reunion in Little Rock. ...

Over at the New York Times , Nicholas Confessore has a piece up claiming that Obama's small donors, who were such a major part of his s...

This post by Gladstone at Cracked is a bit old, but contains some important notions about presidential popularity that deserve to be addres...

Kevin Drum (via Bernstein ) takes apart Bruce Bartlett's claim that Obama should have stayed single-mindedly focused on the economy ev...

If Kaddafi's ouster leads to plummeting oil prices, and that leads to an improved American economy, Obama will owe his election to a gro...

Scene: Third presidential debate, October 2012. In the most recent tracking polls, Obama leads the Republican nominee by only two points. ...

John Sides looks at recent economic growth numbers and polling trends and concludes that "Barack Obama is on the cusp of becoming the ...

One point I wouldn't mind hearing more of from the media in their coverage of debt ceiling negotiations: It is very, very hard to know w...