I suppose it may not be sporting of us to pick on Meacham twice. But I can't stop staring at the assertion that the key to Jefferson's political success was that he "managed to forge friendships with even some of his staunchest critics." Right. How...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Irin Carmon is making sense: Less than a day into the Manti Te’o revelations, we’ve heard more about a fake dead girlfriend of a Notre Dame football player than a.
Naughty, naughty -- apparently the most egregious sports overhype since Charlie Weis turns out to have a deceased girlfriend from Canada. I guess that ends the suspense over who the.
Back many, many years ago in my undergraduate days, my intramural floor hockey team won a lopsided victory. Since the other team was called "Conrad Bain," however, I felt they were the real winners. R.I.P.
Like the vast majority of people living in the United States, after reading the handy WSJ infographic I have absolutely no idea. To borrow a line from Lindsay Beyerstein, I.
Note #1: An article written in a major American publication asserts that "[w]omen no longer need to be beautiful in order to express their talent. Lena Dunham and Adele and.
Paul Waldman wants the NRA's head on a pike thinks the arguments being advanced by the NRA are ludicrously illogical in an instructive way: What an elitist, that Barack Obama, thinking he's somehow above ordinary people, like he has some particularly critical job or something,...
MoDo strikes again.
Sandy Hook edition. I suppose it's not shocking that people who can convince themselves about non-existent federal conspiracies to eliminate gun ownership would take things to the next step.
Via Paul's other place, I was fascinated to read this discussion thread, in which a law professor at Santa Clara entered what remained a largely substantive discussion and was thoroughly routed (with inevitable resorts to baseless questioning of the motives of people who presented inconvenient...
The Sphinx has spoken: Justice Clarence Thomas broke his nearly seven-year silence at Supreme Court oral arguments Monday. But no one is sure exactly what he said. Thomas seemed to.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about the Brennan nomination: I do not mean to suggest that the nomination of Brennan means that there are no differences between.