The Times Room for Debate section seems like it would be a good idea--choose a question and get smart people to present different views. But so often the questions are just insipid and come with an ideological bent that precludes solid discussion, not to mention...
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Kevin Levin with an excellent short essay on the evolving relationship between the South and the Confederate flag, where he notes both the connection between the Stars and Bars and.
This is damn fine beer. That is all.
Can someone find me a single black person who isn't a paid Republican token who was offended by Joe Biden's comments? Didn't think so. How anodyne were his words? Here's the Fox News transcript: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOSEPH BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:...
Yes, it seems that when you end up with a billion dollars of your customers'.
I know that there are bigger issues at play in Syria than destroyed old buildings, but this makes me very, very sad. “The Assad government’s primary concern is to destroy.
Following up on last year's discussion of Naomi Wolf's credulous, implicitly anti-federal power conspiracy theorizing, Corey Robin notes that there remains no evidence that the Occupy crackdown was initiated by the federal government as opposed to our benevolent local overlords. Meanwhile, this thread contains an...
In retrospect, Erik's assumption that the Thames walk-off single would be the highlight of the Mariner second half may not hold up. In other news, I no longer feel quite.
First, in Ohio the Republicans couldn't be more straightforward about wanting to suppress Democratic voting, without even a "vote fraud" pretext: If you live in Butler or Warren counties in.
This is the key point in Sarah Kliff's demonstration that the argument that the ACA cuts $716 billion is accurate but misleading: It’s worth noting that there’s one area these cuts don’t touch: Medicare benefits. The Affordable Care Act rolls back payment rates for hospitals...
GQ has an excerpt, or rather an excerpt of an excerpt, from Joe Posnanski's biography of Joe Paterno, which I'm sorry to hear is being published next week. Posnanski had.
Marc-William Palen provides a response of sorts to my connections between the Gilded Age and today, as well as others who have made the comparison such as Paul Krugman. Palen.