David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

The business of the news is business–and it’s a weird business.

How finite is prestige?

Labor law has not kept up with our changing economy.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Congrats to Dave Schuler on his blogiversary.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

The Southern Law Poverty Center has fired its co-founder for vaguely-specified reasons.

Congress is doing its damned job for a change.

The President’s latest ravings are “very bad, very bad.”

Sometimes symbolism is important. This is one of those times.

Minutes after a Federal judge added 43 months to his sentence, New York state prosecutors unsealed an indictment that could yield another 7 years.

An over-the-top police response to a non-violent offense.

Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton makes an argument familiar to OTB readers.

The Democratic Speaker of the House says there will be no charges against the Republican President barring an “overwhelming and bipartisan” consensus.

Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are the most famous of dozens of rich folks trying to get their kids into elite schools.

The woman famous for losing the Georgia governor’s race is eyeing a bigger job.

Looking to OTB readers for insights into an argument with which I’m struggling.

Why rational discourse seldom changes the minds of some people.

A mystery within a mystery . . .

The former Vice President is seen as “just right” by likely Caucus goers.

I was wr-r-r-r-r-ong.

The mysterious disappearance of long-time OTB commenters.

A new tool for looking at possible Presidential election outcomes.

A novel proposal for making SCOTUS appointments more responsive to election outcomes.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

It turns out there actually is a crisis on the US-Mexico border.

Luke Perry’s death is a sad reminder.

Does it depend on what the meaning of “running” is?

The freshman Congresswoman is getting it from all sides.

Reason’s Nick Gillespie makes an interesting case but I don’t buy it.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

The President of the United States and the most-talked-about freshman Representative in ages could not be more different.

Nancy Pelosi is tired of Democrats voting to please their constituents.

Five things I think I think after the hearings.

The Texas Congressman has decided to forgo another Senate bid and instead focus his energies elsewhere.

While not subject to filibuster, it’s still subject to Presidential veto.

The populist Democrat won’t be hosting fundraising dinners. Until the general election campaign, at least.

Kevin Drum uses some clever sleight-of-hand to demonstrate a hard truth about the human condition.

Breathless coverage of this freshman Congressman is getting tiresome.

A bipartisan group of foreign policy luminaries says there is no factual basis for President Trump’s claim.

Now that women are allowed into all combat roles, the rationale for excluding them from Selective Service has evaporated.

Grammar and spelling errors abound at all but a handful of news sites.

An interesting plot twist in the Goodloe Sutton saga.

And I’d still prefer her to Donald Trump.

The 83-year-old is taking time off finishing his LBJ quintilogy to write his memoirs. Is that selfish?

Literally no current candidate for President has a net favorable opinion rating.

It turns out, The Duke wasn’t all that woke.