Brendan Nyhan

Duke lacrosse roundup from Herald Sun

Durham's Herald Sun newspaper includes a few new tidbits in today's article on the Duke lacrosse case. First, the New Black Panther Party is getting involved: An official with the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense said the black...

Save Matthew Yglesias from CAP!

Back in July, I worried that the move of Matthew Yglesias from The Atlantic to the Center for American Progress would undermine his independence due to "the structural incentives of working for a movement organization and appealing to a ...

Twitter roundup

Twitter roundup (6/27-7/5) Brendan Nyhan Jul 5, 2011 at 1:46 PM Powered by Keepstream BrendanNyhan Brendan NyhanInteresting - @JonahNRO endorses my post on the myth of Reagan as Great Communicator in USAT: http://j....

Judis vs. Judis on presidents and the economy

Back in January, I predicted the birth of a thousand "Why Obama is failing" narratives: It's time to lay down a marker on punditry about the Obama White House. During the next eleven months, it will become increasingly obvious that De...

Will the media notice that Bush isn't very popular?

As private accounts continue to flatline, a few people are starting to notice that President Bush isn't very popular, as I pointed out last week. Ironically enough, it was the Washington Times that led the charge: President Bush's reco...

Ron Paul: The elephant in the room

I'm usually a hater when it comes to people floating third-party scenarios, but why isn't anyone talking about a Ron Paul third-party run? What is he going to do with all that money? He can't possibly spend it all on his lame ads, can he?

Unity '08 tanking

David Broder's latest column on the utopian third party group Unity '08 contains this damaging admission: I contacted [Unity co-founder Douglas] Bailey recently to ask what had happened to this bold gamble, and he was the source of that...