How much money’s been spent on Michelle Obama’s wardrobe, or Barbara Walters’ wardrobe or Katie Couric’s wardrobe or Diane Sawyer’s wardrobe or Hillary Clinton’s? For crying out loud, one of Mrs. Clinton’s famous political fashion designers, Susanna Chung Forest, who designed Hillary’s pantsuits, which, that’s gotta boost the resume. She says that it would be […]

In the world of economics, Milton Friedman is an icon. His contributions to understanding how free markets work earned him a Nobel Prize and a reputation as one of history’s most brilliant economists and teachers.Now the University of Chicago, Freidman’s academic home for 30 years, is embroiled in controversy over plans to honor Friedman by […]

The Supreme Court on the 17th, sided with Democrats in this case involving Ohio’s Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. As you know, there are 200,000 voter registrations that don’t match their DMV records and Social Security numbers and so forth. The secretary of state of Ohio, she was saying, “I don’t have time to implement […]

An article from the Wilson Quarterly, the Woodrow Wilson Center for scholars: “The Irrational Electorate.” By Larry Bartels who directs the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author of Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, published […]

Gloria Borger was on CNN’s Election Center last Tuesday night, the host Campbell Brown. “Where do things stand, Gloria? Is Sarah Palin hurting rather than helping the McCain campaign?” BORGER: Well, she certainly isn’t bringing along Hillary Clinton supporters. Anybody who thought that she was going to bring along Hillary Clinton supporters was not looking […]