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Wiretap: The bombing, the bag, the Boss, and 3.64 billion Skittles

Sane calculations Adam Gopnik writes in The New Yorker that the typical New Yorker's response to the Chelsea bombing was not simply "bold" or "courageous,"...

Wiretap: Can Bruce Springsteen beat North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ laws

The Boss We know that Bruce Springsteen canceled his North Carolina concert to protest the state's new anti-LGBTQ laws. What's harder to say is whether such protests work....

Wiretap: President Obama, still kicking

The political obituaries of Barack Obama have all been written. And they will almost certainly all be wrong. Obama has three more years in office, which is like a 100 more years in presidential years.

Veepstakes settled, grapevine turns to Boss-stakes

The blog that first predicted Barack Obama would move his acceptance speech to Invesco Field could earn another prognostication feather if rumors flying around Denver turn out to come true. DemConWatch followed up its Invesco coup with reasoned speculation that Bruce Springsteen would appear on stage to serenade the Democratic ticket in front of 75,000 screaming fans.