From Robert Barnes's interesting profile of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: So Ginsburg understands politics but does not feel she faces a deadline to leave so that Obama, whom she admires, can choose her successor. “I think it’s going to be another Democratic president” after Obama, Ginsburg said....
I guess we shouldn't be surprised that Fox News hosts wouldn't know the difference between Mexico and Nicaragua and probably assumes they all wear sombreros and take siestas.
The BBC reports that General Vo Nguyen Giap has died at the age of 102. Obviously, one of the most important military figures of the post-WWII 20th century. People's War,.
My latest at the Diplomat examines the USAF's strategy with respect to the sequester and the Pacific Pivot: Last week, at the Air Force Association’s Air and Space Conference, questions about the impact of the sequester on the future of American airpower loomed large. The Pacific Pivot and...
I'm rather horrified by conservative reaction to the shutdown. Not just because it demonstrates their toddler-level pettiness, but also because it demonstrates, graphically, that conservatives don't understand what government is..
I'll take Jim Boeheim's assertions about how his players don't merit compensation seriously as soon as he agrees to be paid the average associate professor's salary and volunteers to coach.
The Republican Party's primary mission is to punish the poor.
Connecticut attorney Samuel Browning has distilled my book Don't Go To Law School (Unless) into the purity of its essence, via a flowchart. Matt Leichter has posted the chart on.
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Sure, Republican senators may be badmouthing Ted Cruz and yelling at him in private. But until they start badmouthing him to reporters using their own names instead of anonymously, they are still scared of him and it doesn't mean very much. Given how much he is...
Ralph Nader is applying the same tactics that helped 4 years of unified Democratic government in the late 70s produce pretty much nothing to trying to stop new libraries in.
I dunno whether the appropriate reaction to this is relief or surprise: With attention shifting to potential consequences of not increasing the debt limit, one House Republican said Thursday that.