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