It's all over my social media today that today is the last day to comment on the rule that Russell Vought wants to impose on scientific grant-making, to add a political officer to those who must sign off on all grants. This is what the Soviet...
There is a very real possibility that Republican congressional majorities will walk into a government shutdown before the midterms by failing to pass a spending bill: Annual spending bills aren’t.
Some reports that it was in front of his three-year-old daughter. Also unclear at this time if the man was even undocumented, not that that should make any difference when.
The most concrete potential impact of this ruling is to void the "no audit" part of the agreement, now that Trump has backed away from the money: President Trump and his family acted in bad faith in bringing a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, a...
Sam Neill could add class and gravitas to just about anything, while also maintaining a wry sense of humor in even the most serious roles. I don't think that Jurassic.
I think it was Belle Waring at Crooked Timber who once had a post pointing out -- I'm paraphrasing here -- that if you're going to imagine you have a.
My colleagues Charles Dainoff and Geoff Williams and I have a new article at Foreign Policy, on Ukraine's approach to a post-modern defense industrial base: In this fifth year of the war, small industrial workshops develop and produce drone designs, which are then shipped to the front lines...
One thing that I was actually wondering about just a bit is whether the fact that Lindsey Graham had turned himself into the most disgusting imaginable lickspittle for Donald Trump.
This is the grave of John Okada. Born in 1923 in Seattle, Okada grew up in the Japanese-American community there. It was pretty big. But west coast whites were among.
Hey friends! What’s going on with you? Are you already thinking about the fall because it means that the teenage boys who make foul grunting noises at you while you’re out jogging will be back in school? Because I sure am. But I am also looking...
Good interview with Atul Gawande about the impact of Elon feeding USAID into the wood chipper: This is an enormous number, so I think it would be worth specifying: people.
Mitch claims to be alive: https://twitter.com/phillipmbailey/status/2076417112705270157?s=20 https://twitter.com/phillipmbailey/status/2076418619223818258?s=20 Well that should resolve everything until the next time this comes up.