
As the Marx Brothers said, there ain't no sanity clause--but these are my latest thoughts about politics, policy, culture, books and other stuff.
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In the old Soviet Union, there was a leadership position called Party Ideologist. I always loved that. In fact, I duly established an imaginary equivalent for the Democrats: Party Idealogist. The title was held by various Dems over the year...
There’s a rush going on to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic nominee for Senate from Maine with a celebrity—Heather Cox Richardson, Stephen King—but that would violate Klein’s Second Law of Politics:
Politicians Make the Best Politi...
The US Men’s National Team went with a whimper last night—a rather confused, amateurish effort against elegant Belgium—but they left with a piece of my heart and my sympathy. They would have lost even if they’d won. How’s that?
Donald Tru...
I am 80 years old this year of our 250th anniversary…and I find myself a cliche. My life has been a familiar political journey, from left to center. I recently took the Pew political test and found that I was a “pragmatic and polite conserv...
Well, I suppose it’s symbolic and fitting that Sanity Goddess and I ceased being residents of New York—that is, we sold our house—on the day the Democratic Socialists romped in Congressional elections in the city. We were leaving anyway. Th...
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Joe Klein writes the Sanity Clause newsletter on Substack and is the author of seven books, including Primary Colors.
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