John McCain  hopes that voters will forget about his role in our country’s last major financial crisis and costly bailout: the savings and loan crisis of the late ’80s and early ’90s. But voters deserve to know that the failed…

Friends and Colleagues: As I note in my piece in today’s Huffington Post,   several anti-Obama books have recently arrived in bookstores, and several are already on the best-seller lists. But Jerome Corsi’s The Obama Nation has triggered the most controversy,…

Friends and Colleagues: My column in today’s Huffington Post focuses on putting the nation’s long-neglected cities and metro areas back on the political agenda. Next week, Barack Obama will be addressing the US Conference of Mayors annual meeting, while John…