Read Politics Rumpus Original Dispatches from the Swamp: How to Sleep-Train Your Lawmakers Samuel AshworthJanuary 14, 2019 This time? This time we decided to sleep-train the baby.Read
Read Politics Rumpus Original Dispatches from the Swamp: No Justice, No Tacos Samuel AshworthJune 27, 2018 Civility only works on the civil. Decorum is for the deserving.Read
Read Politics Rumpus Original Dispatches from the Swamp: The Babble in the Bubble Samuel AshworthDecember 19, 2017 To the extent that America—that great big word that makes us all so anxious—exists at all, it exists as a vast and noisy sheet of bubble wrap.Read
Read Politics Rumpus Original Dispatches from the Swamp: To the Bureaucrats, with Love Samuel AshworthOctober 13, 2017 About 173,000 people work for federal agencies in this Washington DC, and let’s be absolutely clear from the get-go: the mood among them is grim.Read
Read Politics Rumpus Original Dispatches from the Swamp: Storm’s Coming Samuel AshworthAugust 21, 2017 It was as if I could hear the whole country breathing softly, softly, together. Finally, the sleepless eye had closed.Read
Read Politics Rumpus Original Dispatches from the Swamp: The Absolute Necessity of Softball Samuel AshworthJune 28, 2017 And then one guy on his team yells, “You have to touch the bases, buddy! This is still America!” That is all it takes. For one guy on the other side to put country over party.Read
Read Politics Rumpus Original Dispatches from the Swamp: I Watched the Comey Hearings in a DC Bar with a Face Full of Novocaine Samuel AshworthJune 9, 2017 When you live in a political football it’s hard to ignore getting kicked.Read