If there's one thing this country needs, it's "smart" rifles that almost never miss no matter how inexperienced the shooter. I know that the first time some crazy person takes one of these onto a college campus or into an elementary school, our national freedoms will...
National Security Archive has put together an interesting collection of material on the 1983 Able Archer exercise, which freaked the Russians out. "Do you think Soviet leaders really fear us,.
If I were a Maple Leafs fan this week, crack would seem pretty appealing. I assume it was seeing this that made him feel that alcohol was insufficient: ...More: The.
This is a story that won't get lasting attention because of the small number of dead workers, but following the death of 1127 garment workers in Bangladesh, we have another factory collapse in the apparel industry. The roof collapsed in a Cambodian shoe factory, killing 2...
Craft brews would have better sales if they didn't taste so much like beer. But srsly, people who like to drink Bud Light just aren't going to like craft brews.
Ezra Klein sums up what the future will almost certainly say about the Obama Administration and these so-called scandals Republicans are so desperately clinging to like a piece of driftwood.
The 21 greatest conservative episodes of The Golden Girls brands of masking tapehip-hop songs! Not that I recommend getting out of the boat beyond Roy, but if you're a masochist this gives you the general flavor: Eminem should be a conservative icon, you see, because of...
Rarely does a (at least once-) respectable pundit face-plant as badly as Michael Kinsley re-proving Krugman's points about austerity mongers while attempting to refute them. While it's impossible to summarize.
Myron Levin has just an outstanding report on how the power saw industry fights against implementing already existing technology that would reduce finger injuries from table saws to zero. In.
House Republicans are moving forward in their ultimate goal of entrenching poverty, passing a farm bill that slashes food stamps. Steve King talks of food stamps that "expand the dependency class," words that could have come out of the mouth of any bog standard Gilded Age...
At the Diplomat I post my thoughts on the legacy of Kenneth Waltz: On Sunday evening, Dr. Kenneth Waltz passed away at the age of 88. Waltz is best known for.
If there was a Hall of Fame for great songs, Tom T. Hall's "Pay No Attention to Alice" would be an obvious induction.