Money matters a great deal in politics, but Prick Erry impressively demonstrates that it only goes so far if your backers have nothing to work with.
Author: Scott Lemieux
When a studio 1)dumps a movie based on an expensively acquired series of detective novels clearly intended to be a franchise in the January dead zone, 2)based on the Saturday.
I had been meaning to get to Douthat's argument about how requiring employer-provided health care packages to provide coverage for contraceptives is the death knell of civil society or something..
They want it all, and they want it their way. Plus, Wilson is doing it wrong; when you're enumerating the "luxury" goods that some poor people own, you're still supposed to specify "color" TV, surely.
The first last step was touching the moon. As the Republican primaries approach their de facto end in Florida, Newt is making a lot of noises about staying in to.
Krugman on austerity in the UK, a terrible idea that has worked out horribly in practice: How could the economy thrive when unemployment was already high, and government policies were.
Fred Hiatt brings us a strong opening bid: It also could have been possible that Witt wanted to preempt the inevitable investigation and humiliation. Whether the charge of “sexual assault,” whatever that is, was ever true is irrelevant to the immediate and substantively unfounded assault...
There are two types of criticism I find particularly irritating. On the one hand -- this was particularly prevalent in Seattle alt-weeklies when I was a grad student -- you.
Powerful and important reporting from Elise Foley: On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of.
Evidently, Bijan's sophisticated empirical analysis in a dying thread merits front-page coverage. Although I certainly hope that in keeping with the tenets of Paul-curiosity reproductive freedom and other such trivialities were not considered "civil liberties" issues. For a follow-up, maybe someone can conduct a study...
Let's just say that I'm not optimistic that Posnanski's Paterno book will be what it should be.
I love Jon Chait's Mitt Romney/Ace Rothstein analogy. The problem for the conservative base is that their competing suitors can't even rise to the level of a card shark, a.