An Interview with Melvin A. Goodman

…former Tea Party congressman, Mike Pompeo from Kansas, to be the director of the CIA, and then his appointment of a Deputy Director in terms of Gina Haspel. Gina Haspel is not known to many people in the United States, but she was one of the leading actors, one of…

5 Most Popular Posts: March 2015

…by Steve Fraser. Michael Causey’s assessment was excellent, the subject matter depressing. Politicians are completely in the pocket of big business, and the average worker barely stands a chance? Sigh. A review of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Novelist Paula McLain’s critique of this fairytale-like story brought in droves…

The News: A User’s Manual

…it happening anytime soon. Alain de Botton for emperor!Michael Causey is a past president of Washington Independent Writers and a longtime trade journalist. His father, Mike Causey, was a longtime columnist for the Washington Post and is now senior columnist and on-air analyst at FederalNewsRadio/WTOP.

David and Goliath

…a distraught father named Mike Reynolds channeled some of his grief into helping create California’s Three Strikes law. Gladwell argues that the law didn’t actually deter crime. The law was later scaled back, viewed by many as a failure. Gladwell contrasts that outcome with that of a mother, Wilma Derksen,…

Author Q&A with William McPherson

…and started referring to it as my book. Michael Causey is a journalist and fledgling fiction writer. He worked with Bill McPherson in the mid-1980s, mostly bringing coffee to him and others on The Washington Post’s Editorial Page. Causey’s father is the former author of the Post’s “Federal Diary” columnt,…