Goodness knows, Mitt Romney is not asking me for campaign advice. But you have to wonder why he hasnt taken the opportunity to connect with Americans whove lost their homes by talking about his childood home in Detroit. The 5,500-square-foot structure in the long-exclusive Palmer Woods was demolished two years ago, an artifact of the blight that has ravaged so much of the Motor City.

All magazine issues since 2008 are now available in The New Yorker Today app. How Paul Ryan Got It Wrong. You do not last forever in power in Washington, Ryan said. He was speaking of his own career. He might also have been speaking about his movement. If there is a good case for war, it should be one that can be made to and in Congress. But Congress has embraced its recent exclusion from the process.

Goodness knows, Mitt Romney is not asking me for campaign advice. But you have to wonder why he hasnt taken the opportunity to connect with Americans whove lost their homes by talking about his childood home in Detroit. The 5,500-square-foot structure in the long-exclusive Palmer Woods was demolished two years ago, an artifact of the blight that has ravaged so much of the Motor City.