I wrote a bit at the Diplomat about some recent research on Confucius Institutes: A new book by Jennifer Hubbert, China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globaliz
Lev Parnas is a crook and a liar; he played a non-trivial role in spreading the web of lies at the heart of the Orange Extortion scandal. Marcy Wheeler writes that: Over and over, we see Parnas feedin
Paul already mentioned the “did we quit after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor” moment revealed in Rucker and Leonnig’s new book A Very Stable Genius. But apparently the whole book is
This is the grave of Daniel Burke. I have no idea who this guy is. He would have been too young for Korea but I don’t know if he was in Vietnam. It doesn’t really matter. I was wandering a
I have a review of Annalee Newitz’s second novel, The Future of Another Timeline, up at Strange Horizons. We’ve discussed Newitz’s previous novel, Autonomous, in an early Political H
So this is happening. You can understand why he’s going to acquitted, given this ironclad defense: Case closed! Share
Kevin McCarthy and other Republican luminaries are running the “the Democrat Party is trying to RIG the primaries against candidates we TOTALLY have the utmost respect for” routine again:
Well, this is always where his career was going to end up: Sen. Rand Paul is waging a fierce campaign to prevent the Senate from hearing witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, vowing to forc