Month: August 2007
Alabama journalist Gita Smith imagines the Supreme Court oral argument that will take place if the Court accepts a challenge to Alabama's law banning the sale of vibrating sex toys..
Peter Rodman:Military historians seem to be converging on a consensus that by the end of 1972, the balance of forces in Vietnam had improved considerably, increasing the prospects for South.
This is the last of a nine part series on the Patterson School Summer Reading List.1. China's Trapped Transition, Minxin Pei2. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs3. Illicit, Moises Naim4..
Brad Plumer has the details on mountaintop-removal mining and the Bush administration's inevitable but still-appalling attempts to ensure more of it with toothless legal restraints. Garance fills us in on.
Most of the rest of the top 10 make sense -- it it figures to be razor-thin -- but I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have gotten the current NL.
More squirrel bait regarding the American war in Vietnam, today from Peter Rodman, whose ongoing devotion to Henry Kissinger -- his first boss -- is touching if nothing else:Military historians.
Good news from Iraq! Only a few more Friedman Units to go!The polarization of communities is most evident in Baghdad, where the Shia are a clear majority in more than.
To my surprise, my food posts (I am, after all, supposed to be feminist & foodie) have sparked serious controversy 'round these parts. So let's see what happens today, when.