Archive for February 18th, 2009

Going to Santa Cruz

West coast rep Michael Baron recently visited some of the last, best places to keep culture and ideas alive in California.

Political Parties are Polarizing

From The Huffington Post comes a review of Sean Theriault’s Party Polarization in Congress. We’re certainly not post-partisan yet. As Julian Zelizer explains in his Book Corner, there are “two traditional views of polarization”: The first view might be described as the “throw the bums out” prescription. This is the most satisfying for many voters [...]