Exactly one year ago this week the hardback of Just How Stupid Are We: Facing the Truth About the American Voter was published by Basic Books. Now there's a paperback edition available. Is the book still relevant?

After Barack Obama's election friends emailed me wondering if I still...

It turns out that much of the money AIG paid out to banks wasn't to cover losses they suffered on bad real estate deals. Though we still lack all the facts, apparently most of the credit default swaps hadn't defaulted. They had only declined in value.

I repeat: THEY...

Lawyers have to appeal to juries the way pols have to appeal to voters. And often they follow a similar approach. Ask a good lawyer how they win over a jury and they'll say you have to create a narrative the jurors can easily follow. That's just what pols have...

This is a story about the failure of The People and how their failure led inexorably to the Iraq War. But before we can get to that a history lesson is in order about the development of a taboo so powerful it is making good government all but impossible.

The...