Like Ta-Nehisi Coates and others, I am pretty disgusted that the Obama Administration has defined any male of military age killed by a drone bombing to be a combatant. This is morally bankrupt and is a cheap way to justify the huge number of collateral casualties...
The Tar Heel State is moving up the list of insane states. There is virtually universal agreement among scientists that the sea will probably rise a good meter or more.
Two days ago, David Axe posted a short piece on the Diplomat blog reporting that a US general had indicated that US and ROK special forces could be operating in.
So it seems Quebec has started the Casserole Revolution. When I was growing up, casseroles were something I ate at hot dish night every Wednesday at our local Lutheran church. Today, they are revolutionary. Does this revolution include tater tot pie? Or canned green beans (french...
The number of trees in an urban neighborhood proves a very strong determinant of the area's income level. This means you can judge income inequality in satellite images.
One of the many reasons that The Passage of Power is fascinating is that it deals with the beginning of an unusually effective administration in terms of domestic policymaking. Because.
On this date in 1937, Chicago police opened fire on strikers in front of the Republic Steel mill, killing 10 workers. Part of the "Little Steel" strike, where smaller steel corporations refused to follow U.S. Steel into signing contracts with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (later...
University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds has a piece in the New York Post about the student debt crisis, in law school and more generally. It's obviously a good.
I think Spitzer and Nocera have this one right. The coverage of the Facebook IPO demonstrates the extent to which the media has internalized the interests of speculators (including those.
If this doesn't find its way into the Top Gun 2 script, I'm gonna cry: Former Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham, R-Calif., who in 2005 pleaded guilty to accepting more and larger bribes than any other member of Congress in history, has appealed to the judge who...
The great, wonderful, amazing Doc Watson has passed at the age of 89. Doc's story is well-known to fans of Appalachian music. Blind from infancy, Doc learned to play a.
The latest Mad Men ("The Other Woman") presented me with more to think about than I can currently wrap my head around, but so too did the latest Games of Thrones ("Blackwater"),.