Robert David Sullivan

(Un)Conventional Wisdom on the midterm races from Robert D. Sullivan.

Will campaign promises make substantive entitlement reform harder to achieve?

Perhaps encouraged by that David Brooks column in which he swoons over the ldquo responsible elite rdquo people in Mitt Romney rsquo s circle are putting out vibrations of another presidential run in 2016 The Washington Examiner rsquo s Byron York revealed all in a Wednesday column ldquo Romne

Will a “porous, self-conscious and responsible elite” fix what ails the U.S.?

Barred from voting, 19th-century women perfected art of door-to-door campaigning.

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom for Robert D. Sullivan

Foreign crises are complicating the Democratic Party’s plans to win the midterms.

Little chance of a “throw the bums out,” anti-incumbent result in midterms.

Are local governments the biggest threat to civil liberties in the United States?

Slate rsquo s Reihan Salam has a piece on ldquo The Biggest Problem in American Politics rdquo which is that he rsquo s a conservative in New York City and is thus always on the losing side in congressional elections But he rsquo s not speaking only for the ldquo Reaganites rdquo in NYC ldqu