I’m sure I’ll have more about Bud Selig’s attempted bailout of the Yankee front office soon. But to actually talk about baseball for a second, since this point is going to come up a lot I wanted to make a point about A-Rod’s first big contract. The second big contract has certainly been a really […]
Month: August 2013
To follow up on a request from a commenter: I posted a request for any information about historical or contemporary border-crossing rights specifically granted to subsets of the larger population, alo
One of my brothers is a musician who runs a recording studio, and recently he told me that a friend of his recorded an album (is that still the right term?) at a well-known studio in Los Angeles. His
Whatever issues you may have with the Iron Lady, this would undoubtedly have been good policy: Margaret Thatcher’s government imagined rounding up and imprisoning Scottish nationalists in the event of a possible nuclear war, previously secret official documents show. The papers, released under the 30-year rule, set out details of a 1983 “war game” in […]
The state of Missouri is trying to ensure that as many of its citizens lack access to health care as possible. While states like Colorado, Connecticut and California race to offer subsidized insurance
I did some reporting on the question, and barring the discovery of some new evidence the answer is “almost certainly not.” I learned a lot of interesting stuff along the way, though —
It’s never been clear what value Frank Bruni is adding in his current role. It really says something about how lazy and hacky William Kristol is that he lost his Times commentary sinecure. It’s a tough bar to get under, but he did it.
The last five years have seen a wealth of good material on the history of military aviation. The latest from the University Press of Kentucky is The Influence of Airpower Upon History: Statesmanship,
At least until I find a place in Baton Rouge. I feel obligated to write this post because of the concern espoused in a previous one about my travels in Texas. I attribute making it through unscathed t
Some useful history from Mike Konczal: The last two weeks have seen a flurry of commentary on the relative merits of Larry Summers and Janet Yellen as potential candidates for the next chair of the Federal Reserve. Some of the criticism about Larry Summers comes from his role in 1990s deregulation of finance. His fight […]
Julius Chambers, a civil rights hero who went 8 for 8 arguing cases before the Supreme Court, including the landmark employment discrimination case Griggs v. Duke Power, has passed away. (What a diffe
Actual first graph of a Reuters story featured in today’s edition of The Paper of Record: NEW YORK — When Josh McFarland graduated from Stanford he owed $40,000 in student loans and couldnR