Ben Florsheim

Ron Fournier announced this week that Millennials, those scamps, hate politics and will not be getting involved in it. This may come as a surprise to Millennials, especially those of us who, like me, are already involved in politics, but no matter. Fournier hath spoken. The proclamation was issued in The Atlantic, home to those […]

Dan Malloy, on the campaign trail In this era of activist state governance, the term “laboratories of democracy” has been used to describe the rapid policy changes occurring as statehouses have shifted in control over the last few years. Almost exclusively, these have been conservative changes, as crusading right-wing majorities have tackled long agendas: slashing […]

The internet was abuzz this week with the news that the Tesla Model S electric car was rated the safest production automobile ever tested by the government, performing off the standard five-star scale for various safety categories. This is big news – but why? Matt Yglesias notes that because it’s a mass-market electric car, “anything […]

Aside from solid progressive credentials, the secret is a remarkable family.

Why is conservative Utah so upwardly mobile? The answer may surprise you.

The NYT whiffs in its New Jersey Senate endorsement.

In one tiny sentence, everything that is absurd, backwards, self-deluded, and contemptible about the dying publishing industry: [Amazon has] devalued the concept of what a book is, and turned it into a widget. That’s Dennis Johnson, publisher, quoted in a Salon piece called “Amazon is worse than Walmart.” The impetus for that headline is President […]

Pushing back on Bill Proxmire’s anti-science legacy.

As DC-reporting supercouple Ezra Klein and Annie Lowrey informed the world last week, Larry Summers, the former Clinton treasury secretary, Obama economic advisor, Harvard president, and Aaron Sorkin character, has emerged as a top contender in the Fed-stakes for Ben Bernanke’s job. Summers-mentum has snuck up on and perhaps overtaken the wind at Federal Reserve […]

With Weiner once again a casualty of his own behavior, who might take his place in the runoff?