As in Chicago, President Obama seems to live in a cocoon in which Republicans are largely absent, offscreen actors that no one pays any attention to.

California faces a $26.3 billion budget gap; lawmakers in Sacramento have had no choice but to make desperate spending cuts.

The California budget crisis may well lead to a second financial calamity that would be far worse than anything experienced over the past eighteen months.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

The United Nations General Assembly is in the midst of its 62nd session, and the influence of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of Islamic Conference, and the G77 states (an intergovernmental economic organization of 130 developing countries within the UN) continues to feature prominently in the international political arena. In...

In the latest AEI Political Report, the AEI Politics team looks at at the new phase of 2012 campaign from a variety of angles. 

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So, David Sanger had a piece in the NYT last weekend wondering whether there’s a “Romney doctrine.” Of course, he wasn’t really wondering; he knew from the get go what he thought. And luckily for Sanger, he had plenty of Romney advisers to help along his theory.

To bring America back to the path that leads to flourishing, free enterprise advocates must abandon their traditional arguments about material efficiency and make the moral case for the system they love.