PostPartisan Archive: Marcus

Does football cause domestic violence?

Does professional football cause domestic violence? Not exactly, although Thanksgiving does (see below.) But it turns out that losses in professional football games -- specifically, when the home team suffers an unexpected upset, based on the pre-game point spread...

On Gerson's takedown of Attorney General Holder

I’d like to propose Marcus’s General Theory of Punditry: the intellectual force of a column tends to be in inverse relationship to the amount of invective. Today’s example -- and, yes, I’m sure it would be easy to apply...

In defense of Blue Dogs and RINO's

My friend Jill Lawrence has an interesting column in AOL’s “Politics Daily” about what she calls “the misfits” -- politicians who are in the wrong party and, she thinks, “really ought to switch.” With all respect to Jill, I...

Freedom of choice, except for women

Opponents of the various Democratic health-reform proposals spend a lot of time talking about how people should be free to purchase whatever kind of insurance they want. Except, it turns out, if those people are women. Going into Saturday’s...

Continue ignoring the punditry

Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz did a version of my look at the predictive force -- or lack thereof -- of the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections -- except his smartly took into account the general rule...

Public option: less than advertised

One of the fundamental arguments for having a public option as part of future health-insurance exchanges is that the increasing consolidation in insurance markets has reduced competition among insurers, thereby driving up premiums. Having a public option, the argument...

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The White House's war with Fox News: still dumb, Stephen Stromberg , October 21, 2009

Obama's dumb war with Fox News, Stephen Stromberg , October 19, 2009

A Nobel for a Good Two Weeks?, Marisa Katz , October 9, 2009

Crossing Justice Scalia, Stephen Stromberg , October 8, 2009

Levi Johnston's Smarmy Tale, Stephen Stromberg , September 3, 2009

John Edwards a Lot Short of 99%, Marisa Katz , August 14, 2009

All Hail the King of Pop?, Autumn Brewington , July 7, 2009

Sanford's Confession Tour Catch-Phrase, Stephen Stromberg , July 1, 2009

We Hear the Whole Sanford Story -- Way Too Much of it, Stephen Stromberg , June 24, 2009

Sotomayor's Deliberate Choice of Words, Marisa Katz , May 30, 2009

Nancy Drew Rules!, Marisa Katz , May 26, 2009

Gingrich's Deranged Ethics Advice, Stephen Stromberg , May 20, 2009

The Magnificent Irony of Dick Cheney, Stephen Stromberg , May 15, 2009

Souter Lets Go, Specter Clings, Marisa Katz , May 5, 2009

From Obama, Presidential Prose, Autumn Brewington , April 29, 2009

Candidate Obama vs. President Obama, Marisa Katz , March 2, 2009

In Re: The Matter of Rod Blagojevich (Dissenting), Marisa Katz , January 27, 2009

Soap Opera Digest: The Caroline Kennedy Issue, Marisa Katz , January 22, 2009

My Beef With Burris, Marisa Katz , January 14, 2009

Palin in Comparison, Marisa Katz , January 9, 2009

What's Wrong With Girly Dogs?, Marisa Katz , November 28, 2008

Courting Disaster With Obama? Hardly., Autumn Brewington , October 29, 2008

Neimansgate, Marisa Katz , October 22, 2008

The VP Debate: Odd Moments, Marisa Katz , October 3, 2008

Live Q&A, Marisa Katz , October 2, 2008

My Breakfast With Mahmoud, Marisa Katz , September 25, 2008

Palin on Thin Ice, Marisa Katz , September 23, 2008

Taking Politics Out of the White House, Marisa Katz , September 22, 2008

Ditch the Surrogates, Marisa Katz , September 18, 2008

The Pig Takes the Cake, Marisa Katz , September 10, 2008

Respect Is a Two-Way Street, Autumn Brewington , September 2, 2008

Unmoved by the Billfest, Autumn Brewington , August 27, 2008

Hillary's Pitch-Perfect Toast, Autumn Brewington , August 26, 2008

Richard Cohen Made Me Blog, Marisa Katz , August 26, 2008