What happens when the House of Representatives and Senate pass slightly different versions of the same legislation? Any schoolkid can answer that: the House and the Senate send delegates to negotiate a compromise bill. If only it actually worked that way. All too often, the negotiators don’t split the difference during the House-​​​​Senate conference, particularly […]

On Damon Linker’s definition of a “temperamental conservative” as a progressive.

Paul Krugman is wrong: Herbert Hoover did not cut federal spending.