Joshua Green

Bob Vander Plaats offers GOP candidates a choice: join his crusade against gay marriage or lose the primary.

Recently, I wrote about the odd/grim news that certain deficit hawks in Congress have targeted a small federal grant to support the Grateful Dead Archive at the University of California at Santa Cruz (more about which here).But I am happy to report that there is also some good news from the world of Grateful Dead scholarship. Barry Barnes, a business professor at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, and a central character in my Dead piece, has a new book… More »

Tips on the current status of "Roy's Rock" are welcome More »

Will the Ten Commandments monument run, too? More »

The Fukushima disaster hasn't changed Washington's appetite for developing nuclear power More »

Sen. Tom Coburn sets his sights on the archive at UC Santa Cruz More »

The tea party senator tests the waters in South Carolina More »

So says the Jerusalem Post More »

The bombs were dropped by hand--and hit a hospital More »

But can it top the BBC's epic miniseries "House of Cards"? More »

Video of Reagan crying out, "Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost!" More »

WASHINGTON -- When something big happens, Washington tends to react impulsively. Whether or not it's helpful or appropriate, some cosmic force seems to impel congressmen before the cameras, and before you know it, they're demanding hearings, bills, new commissions -- in a word, action. The disaster unfolding at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has riveted everybody here, as it has around the world. But so far, the response has been measured and… More »

Obama hasn't reversed his support for nuclear expansion—yet More »

It's heating up. But will it have the desired effect? More »

Forced to agree with policies like Walkers anti-bargaining bill and Arizona's immigration law, Republican White House lose out More »

The financial crisis vindicated much of what he's spent his career arguing about. But he's still a longshot to be president. More »

Trump and Gingrich offer eerily similar, equally self-centered explanations More »

WAUKEE, IOWA -- "Are you ready to begin the process of choosing Barack Obama's successor here in Iowa?" Ralph Reed asked the crowd gathered here at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's presidential forum on Monday night. The event, which drew about 2,000 mostly elderly voters, was the first semi-official Republican cattle call of the 2012 election cycle. Five hopefuls showed up: Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, and Buddy Roemer. A rumor… More »

His plane is in Iowa—but is The Donald on it? More »

Prospective 2012 candidates will gather at the Faith & Freedom Coalition forum tonight More »