I have a Time.com piece up this morning about Net neutrality–a complex and important policy issue that has been re-purposed as a political football. You can read it here.

Rarely discussed nowadays is the fact that America’s political leadership–under the direction of president Obama–decided to, in effect, let bygones be bygones and not pursue investigations into allegations of Bush-era torture. (Eric Holder’s Justice Department is investigating some of the most egregious cases, but those seem to be acts of alleged criminal brutality that even [...]

Marcus Hook, Pa. Traveling Companions: none Events: Train station handshaking in Morton, Pa.; factory visit in Marcus Hook, Pa. An abbreviated day, as I’ve had to double back to New York for a friend’s birthday party. But this morning I did several events with Bryan Lentz, the Democrat running against Pat Meehan (see yesterday’s post) [...]

The high sheriffs have determined that I should provide a daily list of what I’m listening to on the road, which is not difficult…but I’ll keep it to five songs per day, mostly stuff that pops up on my iPod as it shuffles through the library. On the first day, however, the tunes also include [...]

If any still doubted that major shakeups were coming to the White House after the midterm elections, they can look to Chicago today, where news just broke that the job Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has coveted for so long is now open. Here is the scoop: Mayor Richard Daley says he will not run [...]

Adam posted below this cute ad, neatly demonstrating Charlie Crist’s claim that a mixture of Democratic and Republican ideas is better for Americans than either party’s solutions alone. But something fishy is going on, the sort of thing that would get a set designer fired from Sesame Street. Did you see it? Democrats is spelled [...]