Joshua Green

The other day, Megan, who I frequently bore with real estate talk, highlighted a new program run by several state housing agencies and Fannie Mae that lets people buy a house with as little as $1,000 down. Less, actually: the couple she cited put down 67 cents. This is obviously scandalous, and sure to end badly for many of these "lucky" buyers if the economy worsens and house prices keep dropping. (Though it's not quite as bad as the Australian banks offering 105… More »

Republicans should take heed of Rove's belief that Christine O'Donnell is an unelectable nut More »

An unsolicited reader submission for the perfect Matt Drudge style headline More »

More from the treasure trove of random O'Donnell TV appearances More »

Christine O'Donnell is the best kind of fringe candidate--the kind with a history of random, long-ago television appearances More »

58 percent of respondents to a recent National Journal/Pew poll favor creating private accounts for Social Security--dangers of the stock market be damned More »

When tackling the whole "diversity" thing, you've got to start somewhere More »

GOP poobahs haven't been playing nice with candidates they don't approve of More »

Bold (but intentional?) prediction from the paper of record More »

A political scientist who's crunched the numbers says that if the Cook Political Report makes a prediction, you can take it to the bank More »

Making the plug for Phil Schiliro, the president's go-to policy wonk More »

He's a tarnished ex-president looking for a cause to embrace. Two words: Clean energy. More »

Yesterday, I wrote about the Mayberry Machiavellis who fancy themselves Karl Rove and go and do really stupid dirty tricks that wind up embarrassing their own side. One example I cited was the (apparently) Republican operative who was impersonating a liberal on Daily Kos and trashing the Democratic Senate candidate in Kentucky, Jack Conway, presumably in a bid to help his opponent, Rand Paul. Doesn't get any dumber than that, I thought. Well, I was wrong. It looks… More »

What could make the Ground Zero mosque controversy even more controversial? More »

David Wessel on the late flurry of stimulus initiatives from the White House More »

Impersonation, recruiting homeless candidates--the most unnecessary schemes to tilt November's elections More »

Democrats better hope the November wave isn't as big as this 64-footer More »

Let's call the president's new proposals what they really are: a desperate and belated effort to revive the economy. They're also an implicit admission that the administration's economic strategy has failed. More »

The most recent Matt Drudge hurricane headline More »

The Obama administration is dominated by two groups, experts and politicos. When planning the recovery, the wrong group prevailed. Now they're stuck. More »