This week, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) launched a new website called McCainpedia to amass and distribute information for its campaign against Senator John McCain. The site is likely to find a measure of success in providing material about McCain’s record to sympathetic bloggers and to journalists looking for what is literally the “party [...]

There has been much discussion of the presidential candidates’ proposals to address rising gas prices. I would like to examine a dimension of this debate that I haven’t yet seen explored: what the candidates’ messages express about their views of prosperity and its sources. The word “prosperity” might seem out of place in [...]