The leadership of the District of Columbia—aka Washington, D.C.—and most Democratic political figures are fired up to make the District the 51st state. The dominant complaint is that residents of the District suffer from “taxation without representation,� a major slogan of the American Revolution. But this appealing claim for voting rights is really a tip-of-the-iceberg... Read More

It is curious: Though I have for decades worked in journalism, mostly in Washington, I know almost nothing of Congress. I mean this literally. I do not know who Mitch McConnell is, his function, or his politics, though I have the impression that he is a Republican. Who was, or is, Paul (I think it... Read More

See also: Oakland’s Gentrification Wars Expose Democratic Coalition’s Contradictions Some 3,000 people, almost every one of them black, swarmed onto the intersection of Washington D.C.’s 14th and U Streets last week for the #DontMuteDC protest known as “Moechella�—part of a gathering protest following T-Mobile’s order that its Metro PCS storefront stop blaring “go-go� music. But... Read More