TV news lives on polls, but I don’t think they are accurate.  They show to some extent what some people are thinking, but they don’t necessarily predict the outcome of…

The Founding Fathers were not enthusiastic about pure democracy.  In his excellent book, The Quartet, historian Joseph Ellis describes James Madison’s views on a democracy that represented the direct choices…

An op-ed in the Financial Times by Martin Wolf calls for strong action by the UK government to prevent the increasingly high energy prices from falling disproportionately on the poor. …

I resent the fact that Democrats revile Southerners who have positive feelings for the Confederacy.  Our ancestors fought for the Confederacy. It is normal to have positive feelings about your…

George Will writes in the Washington Post that the decline of newspapers’ ad revenue has led to a big change in news reporting.  People now read news in on-line papers…

This Economist article details the underlying problems of private equity in the impending downturn. It explains in more detail how the industry is on shaky ground after years of free money and…

In his July 3 Washington Post column David Ignatius cites the problems faced by the United States described in a Rand Corporation report by Michael Mazarr.  Ignatius says: Mazarr’s disturbing…

The Federal Reserve has been playing fast and loose with the American financial system since the “great recession” of 2008, buying immense amounts of bonds and keeping interest rates near…

According to David Ignatius in the Washington Post, the war of words between the US and Russia over cyberspace is heating up.  A senior Russian cyber expert said that the…

In the Washington Post Fareed Zakaria says that we should start thinking about how the Ukraine war should end.  He thinks we are probably in the middle of the war,…