Who chose that wallpaper?

1948 was the election that is represented by the iconic image of the “Dewey Defeats Truman” newspaper headline and the unexpected victory of Harry Truman. While working on an election issue of the magazine I  [more...]

I’ve written about this before, but this morning I was miffed again, so… I’m a believer in our system of government. But it’s a republic, not a democracy. The evidence of why this works better is  [more...]

The other day, the Washington Post ran a long article about the whole Kerry said, Republicans said Vietnam story, showing that both sides were technically lying. Howard Kurtz quotes Michael Tomasky in the American  [more...]