This week’s column, about the vice presidential selections and what they say about the candidates.
Review of Curtis Sittenfeld’s excellent new political novel, American Wife.

Apparently, Massachusetts voters don’t mind that Elizabeth Warren foolishly identified herself as a Native American early in her academic career–it was, apparently, a case of family pride and wishful thinking about a Cherokee ancestor. That’s good. Warren may be the best public figure when it comes to explaining the depredations of the financial industry and [...]
On what we should learn from 11 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
