In Defense of Grover Norquist, Idealistic Advocate of Bad Ideas
The new Grover-the-Terrible narrative is wrong in just about every way.
Michael Grunwald
Michael Grunwald is TIME's senior national correspondent. Before coming to TIME, he spent nearly a decade at the Washington Post, where he served as a congressional correspondent, New York bureau chief, essayist and national investigative reporter. Grunwald has also written for the Boston Globe, The New Republic and Slate among many other publications, and is the recipient of the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting and the Society of Environmental Journalists award for in-depth reporting. Raised in Greenvale, N.Y., Grunwald holds a B.A. from Harvard College. He lives in Miami.
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The “fiscal cliff,” as it is known in Washington, remains poorly understood outside Washington, because it is technical and political and unrelated to adultery. But it’s important, because unless President Obama and Congress can work out a deal to avoid the cliff by January 1, the U.S. could plunge into a recession. Here are …
What I Got Wrong: The Irrationality of Republican Voters
The most surprising trend on Election Day was Democratic Senate victories in bloodred states.
Why the GOP Will Double Down on a Losing Strategy
The thing about an Etch A Sketch is that the picture never looks real. Mitt Romney‘s attempt to draw one self-portrait for the Republican primaries and a different one for the general election left voters unconvinced that he knew …
The Obama Lesson: Deeds Beat Words
Throughout his first term, pundits said Obama was ruining his political fortunes with unpopular policies. He won anyway. And there’s a lesson there.
I Voted! But It Wasn’t as Easy as It Should’ve Been
Long lines at the polls in Florida are evidence that the GOP’s effort to dampen early voting is working.
Nobody Mentions Climate Change. But Somebody Did Something About It.
President Obama doesn’t talk about climate change anymore, except at rallies when he’s firing up his liberal base. But he’s probably done more to prevent it than anyone else on the planet.
Finally, Obama Makes the Case for Four More Years
The argument for reelecting President Obama is not obvious, since the economy is bad, but it’s not all that complex either. I’d say it’s a five-part argument. And tonight, the president finally made all five parts. The big news from this debate will probably be the searing exchange over Libya, but after I shredded Obama’s no-show …
Obama Should Stop Defending Big (Bird) Government
Yes, I know, just 0.014% of the federal budget goes to PBS. Yes, I know, it’s absurd to hear Mitt Romney imply that he can fix the deficit by squeezing Big Bird. But the Obama campaign’s post-debate pivot to Mr. Snuffleupagus’s feathery friend is just as absurd. Yes, I know, Americans like Big Bird, but they’re not so wild about …
If Obama Won’t Defend the Last Four Years, Why Would America Give Him Another Four?
The Obama campaign just sent out a list of “Debate Lies,” a dozen of Mitt Romney’s fudges and falsehoods about his plans and promises. But they didn’t include his lies about the last four years. For example, Romney …
Obama’s Greatest Gift to the GOP: The Backstory to Karl Rove’s Latest Stimulus Ads
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Barack Obama campaigned as a change-the-system outsider, but he has governed as a work-the-system insider. There’s no shame in that. But that’s what made his comment about how change doesn’t happen from the inside so …
