Feed: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - AggScore: 64.2

Do We Really Want A Hedgehog-In-Chief?

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Liel Leibovitz sizes up Santorum and Romney along rhetorical lines: What we want is a decently intelligent president with one solid idea. Or, to borrow Isaiah Berlin’s well-known distinction, what we want is not a fox but a hedgehog. ......

Ad War Update

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The Romney campaign goes after Santorum's unapologetic Bush-era Republicanism in Michigan: Mitt stays on message in a spot marking the third anniversary of the stimulus bill: Meanwhile, Newt courts the "Latino crossover market" in Arizona: And the DNC uses John...

Prison For A Prank?

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In the wake of gay Rutgers student Tyler Clementi's suicide in September 2010, his roommate Dharun Ravi, accused of criminal bias and intimidation, turned down a plea offer. The trial could be televised and run for a month. Emily Bazelon...

The Weekly Wrap

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Friday on the Dish, Andrew dissented from MSNBC's decision to fire Pat Buchanan, exhorted Obama supporters to take the President to task for his war on medical marijuana (follow-up here), reexplained his position on the birth control mandate, corrected misstep...

A Candidate Without A Cause

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Michael Gerson insists that "a purely financial argument for inevitability means that a candidate is not inevitable." Michael Brendan Dougherty goes further: According to Daniel Gross, Mitt Romney could plausibly call four different states a "home state", Michigan, California, New...

Women Closer To Combat, Ctd

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A reader notes something that counters Santorum, who opposes women in combat but dogmatically supports everything Israel: Women have always been trained for combat by the Israel Defense Forces. (And of course, Israel has had openly gay men and women...

Face Of The Day

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Supporters of Burma democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi wait for her arrival in Pyar Pon, Irrawaddy delta region in the Irrawaddy division on February 17, 2012. The Burmese government assured EU development commissioner Andris Piebalgs during his recent visit...

Whose Liberty Matters?

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As Republicans in Washington scream bloody murder about contraception, Alex Koppelman watches the actions of Virginia Republicans: Virginia House has passed a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion. In many cases (most, in...

Reality Check

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Approval of Obama's economic record is moving in the right direction:

Yglesias Award Nominee

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"If Santorum’s comments [on banning online gambling] aren’t nanny state-ism in its purest form, then what is? If President Obama made the same remarks, the story would be getting the Drudge siren. Conservatives would be up in arms. Twitter would...

America The Insular

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Charles Kenny bemoans American unfamiliarity with the rest of the world: The Tyndall Report notes that for 2011, three international stories were among the top five in terms of network news coverage -- Libya, Egypt, and the Japanese quake. But...

Correction Of The Day

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"An earlier version of this article's headline identified Breitbart as gay. He is not," - HuffPo.

What If Michigan Doesn't Matter?

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Noam Scheiber addresses two probable scenarios, "either a single-digit Romney loss or a single-digit Romney win." He thinks neither result will change much: Win or lose for Romney, we’ll still be stuck in the same pattern: Romney pulls out victories...

How Bad Are We At Predicting Talent?

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If sports drafts are any indicator, very bad: A few years ago, Cade Massey and Richard Thaler came out with a paper that looked at the "return on value" from these early draft picks. In essence, they constructed a model...

Will The Contraception Compromise Stick?

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Sarah Kliff isn't sure: Whether insurance companies ultimately protest the rule remains to be seen. So far, they’ve laid low. They may well continue to do so: Even if they do see the new mandate as burdensome or costly, it’s...