It blew me away to discover this week that Americans used public transportation in the 1940s at levels more than twice as high as today. Those are absolute numbers, not per capita. When you consider that the U.S. population then was less than half of what it is now, it makes the numbers even more striking. We’ve plotted out the data here, and I’ve been geeking out over it. Read More

Jon Stewart is on a roll.

Can any state Republican party run a caucus successfully? The 2012 scorecard so far suggests not.

Romney jumps on another of Rick Santorum’s self-inflicted wounds: No, we’re not going to make Puerto Ricans stop speaking Spanish.

Striking images of Syria on the anniversary of the beginning of the unrest.

Here are the facts. Leader of state legislature has affair with staffer. Affair is found out. Staffer is canned. Now staffer is suing.

Add two more facts. Staffer is threatening to reveal identities of all other legislators and staffers who are having affairs and haven’t been fired. And the staffer’s a man and the leader is a woman.

Here’s the story.

Obama’s hot dog diplomacy.

Sen. Richard Lugar ruled ineligible to vote for his own reelection.

For women who don’t want to get that mandatory ultrasound? Just don’t watch, says Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett.

In a major legal/political development, the state of Texas is taking the position that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Rick Hasen explains the significance.