From TNR, Paul Starr reviews On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship by Nancy Rosenblum. One side to every story: Bipartisan dreams have been crashing into political reality from the earliest days of the Republic. From PUP, the introduction to A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before by Cass Sunstein; and the introduction to Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture by Emily Martin. The Scoop Factory: Gabriel Sherman goes inside Politico and the brave new world of post-print journalism (and more). The dismal economy has claimed yet another victim: jobs for the economists who study it. Here are "25 Random Things" about the stimulus package. The random beauty of "25 Random Things": Why the latest
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