This Francisco Goldman article in The New Yorker is a good run-down of what is going on in Guatemala. Citizens finally came together to stand up to the kleptocracy that has run the country since the end of the civil war of the 80s. Protests...
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I have said before that we are in a renaissance of excellent historical writing for a general public that wants to read something more than hagiographic narratives. Add Adam Rothman's.
"My secondary for this game consisted of a wide receiver and some guys I just met at Chilli's." Well, after all, Mark Sanchez Just. Wins. The. Games. In. The. National. Football. League. Remember when people used to argue, with a straight face, that Tim Tebow...
Yesterday, the New York Metropolitans faced the Miami Taxpayer Robbers, and the contest went into extra innings. In the 11th inning with a runner on and two outs, Mets manager.
Damon Wayans.
Wal-Mart is claiming that its decision to pay higher wages (a response to the persistent criticism of the corporation for keeping its workers in such poverty that there are food donation carts asking employees to feed their coworkers in need) is costing its stockholders 24...
The United States has taken an embarrassingly small number of Syrian refugees. That is especially true given U.S. complicity in the rise of ISIS and right-wing pressure to arm the.
This critique of analyses of "legacy" as a pretext for selective moralizing -- source of the above graphic -- is outstanding. Ted Cruz comes out for the sacred right of.
The rule of law is dead, one random winger asserts, and Hillary Clinton killed it: What’s truly unsettling is that it has been widely taken as read among both the media and the general public that Mrs. Clinton will likely avoid serious legal consequences for...
Dan Wetzel -- who has been consistently excellent on the story -- has the definitive Ballghazi analysis: Oh, Roger had it all in his hands back in May. Kraft magnanimously/foolishly.
Excellent: It’s going to be pretty hard for opponents of the Iran Nuclear Deal to claim any momentum from the Schumer defection to their ranks any longer. Today three more.