Joseph Lawler

From President Obama’s interview with Peter Baker:  There is probably a perverse pride in my administration – and I take…

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School has published a report finding that local and county governments across the country owe an aggregate…

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Washington Post reports that Liu is currently in jail…

Todd Purdum has published a lengthy article in Vanity Fair arguing that not only is John McCain now untrustworthy, bitter,…

This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the monthly jobs numbers. The news is all bad.  Payroll employment decreased…

…on this pitch:  Might as well reference the gold standard of politicians throwing first pitches: 

Today’s Hill article on a Tax Foundation study of the effects of the expiration of the Bush tax cuts caused a stir…

There’s a lot not to like in Dinesh D’Souza’s National Review interview, in which he defends his new book and…

Yesterday Paul Volcker, chairman of the Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board and former chairman of the Fed, delivered a diatribe…

Last night, reporters got their hands on copies of the “Pledge to America” — the GOP’s remake of the 1994…