This John Cassidy piece in The New Yorker is the best piece of analysis I’ve read of the Woodward debacle. He does Woodward the justice of honoring what he does as well as anyone else in Washington — which is get access to many of the people at the center of the most consequential historical events of our times. What’s less clear is what perspective or insight or analytical heft he brings to these narratives. Or as Cassidy put it more eloquently … Read More

Female high school student gives testimony before the Connecticut state legislature on how she overcame shyness. Legislature gets caught on live mic saying. “If you’re bashful I got a snake sitting under my desk here.”