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College is a broken zero-sum game. Elizabeth Warren can fix it.
Hey look! A Justice Department investigation that wasn’t interfered with! “Every year, hundreds of thousands of hard-working, talented students strive for admission to elite schools.
Mr. Trump’s crime code.
“It would be no different if I said, ‘That’s the nicest looking tie I’ve ever seen, isn’t it?’ What are you gonna do, you gonna
Pawn sacrifice: Justin Fairfax and the case for in-party impeachment.
Looking for a way out. Not finding one. Justin Fairfax is in a heap of trouble. A week ago, I praised him as the gallantly-named paladin
In politics, the cost of apologizing is astronomical.
Turtlenecks were cool then, right? I re-read my high school and college yearbooks this weekend. There I am with a full shock of hair and a
Howard Schultz: The man who would be kingmaker.
Don’t look now, Schultzy, but that mermaid looks really angry with you. “Iowa nice” is a term describing how Iowans always help out a visitor in
Trump will always blink.
Even one of the doorknobs was furloughed. I should probably resist this urge to brag, but I can’t. In December, I promised my dad that
A candidate’s guide to winning the rock-paper-scissors primary.
Dear Democratic candidates for president: At this point I admit I’ve lost count of you. Harris. Warren. Booker. Gillibrand. Castro. Gabbard. Inslee. Maybe O’Rourke. Biden,
Trump tanked the presidency. Can he tank the economy too?
Last year at this time, I wondered if Trump was tanking the presidency, intentionally failing to spur a GOP bloodbath at the midterms. Jury’s out
The GOP Legacy: Elections don’t have consequences.
Nancy Pelosi isn’t the leader whom the Democrats should run out of town on a rail. It’s Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. While Pelosi tried
Ready Individual One: The quizzical power of a lame duck.
That haircut even looks like a lame duck. Two years into his presidency, Donald Trump just became a lame duck. His team lost the House and
Playing Diplomacy with Nancy Pelosi is a dangerous game.
Your next speaker. Maybe. Nancy Pelosi should be feeling great these days. The longtime San Francisco congresswoman just presided over the largest midterm influx of Democratic
I put my essays into a book that you can get right now.
If you’ve read my essays over the last two years, you know I’ve used game theory to analyze Donald Trump’s actions and many other political