It can be a little hard to follow the teachings of Washington’s centrist cognoscenti. In arguing that a grand fiscal bargain is feasible even in this heated election year, the New York Times today talked to middle-way thinktankers and Gang-of Senators (your Warners, Grassleys and Wydens)–in other words, the types who always think the Simpson-Bowles deficit proposal is one Super [...]
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For the past week or so, the news media have hyped two government scandals with very different implications. The first is the revelation that some workers at the General Services Administration (GSA) have found a way to turn their incredibly boring-seeming jobs into a taxpayer-funded good life. The second is the sordid tale of sex [...]
Here’s some advice for Mitt Romney as he begins his general-election campaign against Barack Obama. Move quickly to the political center. No, fire up the conservative base! Talk more about your agenda. Or consider talking more about yourself. Loosen up. Maybe stick to the teleprompter. Court the right-wing media. Actually, schmooze with the mainstream media.
In its story today about Mitt Romney’s rather opaque views about Afghanistan, the New York Times mentions, almost in passing, something important that has drawn strangely little attention: Romney opposes talking to the Taliban. That’s a relatively extreme position. For some time now, it’s been widely accepted within the foreign policy establishment that any realistic [...]
Beth Myers was Romney’s chief of staff when he was Massachusetts governor. She currently is a senior adviser on his presidential campaign.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Rick Santorum, a former Senator from Pennsylvania, announced the suspension of his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, April 10, 2012. TIME looks back at his rise to prominence
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Even if they can get a little preachy, I’m not one easily bothered by politicians critiquing the media. We write about them all the time–sometimes preachily–and as the principles in a whole bunch of news stories, their perspectives are worth something. But just as when pundits mouth off about politics, it would help press-critic politicians [...]
