This exhaustive explanation of why Jeff Bagwell -- an obvious Hall of Famer on the merits -- wasn't even named on half the ballots last time does indeed contain every "reason" not to vote for him: Jeff Bagwell played from 1991 to 2005, and he...
Month: December 2011
The good news is that Obama was able to use his veto threat to make the entrenchment of arbitrary executive detention in the National Defense Authorization Act somewhat less bad..
I find the charge of presentism one of the most annoying things someone can say to a historian. Every historian is deeply affected by the times in which they live..
If I Were a Rich White Guy by A Poor Black Kid Gene Marks, business owner and column writer for Forbes and the New York Times, has written an excellent piece about how I can overcome the massive structural economic and cultural barriers that make...
Great speech by Holder -- at the LBJ library, appropriately enough.
The (now award-winning) journalist Sara Ganim, who has been doing fantastic work on the Penn State sex ed scandal, has an interesting story about the reliability of Mike McQueary's grand.
Christ: Today鈥檚 episode takes place at the University of Vermont, where a puzzling and revolting survey was recently distributed to the brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon. We were sent a copy of the questionnaire, which mostly consists of benign questions like name, birthday, major, amount...
I have thoughts on the reconstruction of the Libyan armed forces: While there is a temptation to suggest that the new Libyan government should be given as much space as.
Fantastic Vanessa Veselka piece about her attempt to organize an Amazon warehouse. Inspired by the WTO protests in Seattle, Veselka took it in her hands to get a job in.
Union-hating companies and the unionbusters they hire to consult with them are aghast at the new NLRB rules allowing for quick union elections, which undermine corporate ability to spent a year undermining and fixing the election. Josh Eidelson managed to get on a conference call...
People seem fairly optimistic about the likelihood of Assad going down. 聽I'm not so sure, for the reasons that Andrew Reynolds explains: That nation is poised on a knife edge:.
Is Saudi Arabia laying the groundwork to go nuclear? The idea that an Iranian nuclear test would force Saudi Arabia and other regional powers to develop their own nuclear programs.