Joshua Green

Sure, our politicians talk out of both sides of their mouths. But when it comes to the spending and cutting, voters do too. More »

Guaranteed. More »

The former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza wants to upend the race for the 2012 Republican nomination.

Well, some cashiers are just engaging in outright fraud More »

Haley Barbour may have gotten a valuable plug from the Gipper. But he's not the only one. More »

The idea of Jeb Bush '12 catches on More »

Analysis of recent data suggests that about one in ten of the instant scratch prizes is claimed by lottery retailers More »

The Republican National Committee's new chief of staff bought Palin's clothes in 2008 More »

The fight over what to do about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac isn't as contentious as it seems More »

A Mormon can't win with evangelicals More »

Fascinating story in Wired about Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician in Toronto who figured out a way to beat scratch-off lotto tickets. His insight was realizing that computers were programmed to spit out the numbers in, say, a scratch-off tic-tac-toe game and that these numbers couldn't be random because the lotto company needed to control the number of winners. He started looking for numerical aberrations:As a trained statistician with degrees from MIT… More »

There's something worse than enacting a health-care plan like Obama's. And that's working for the guy. More »

If the former Republican governor of Utah and current Ambassador to China decides to challenge Barack Obama in 2012, he may lose--but wind up a better candidate in the future More »

All the most terrible executives of long gone companies are running your electric company More »

The president moves to the center, sets the agenda and tone More »

The point wasn't soaring rhetoric or soothing the nation More »

In Washington, iPhone users are becoming a special interest like any other More »

"Investment," Cantor said, "is a code word for spending." More »

The Atlantic's political team will cover the speech Super Bowl-style More »

Memorable headline juxtaposition after the Rahm Emanuel court ruling More »