David Weigel

A little more than a month ago, after former Rep. Bob Barr started to edge into the Libertarian Party’s presidential…

Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism by William Link (St. Martin’s Press, 656 pages, $39.95) Early…

Sissy Nation: How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits by John Strausbaugh (Virgin Books, 176 pages, $16.95) Now…

If you want to assume the Clintons are devious, five-steps-ahead political operators — and, really, why not assume? — it…

Missouri voters have been buffeted by $16 million of commercials by the Bush and Kerry campaigns, but as yet no…

Barack Obama’s keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention tonight is meant to cement him as the most beloved politician…

If you’ve got to be obsessed with something, make sure it isn’t politics. Sports fans have innumerable events to schedule…