I've gotten a bit of criticism from a couple of political allies about a piece I wrote this weekend for Newsweek/DB concerning claims that Chris Christie's weight should be considered a major negative, or even a disqualification, when evaluating his apparently impending POTUS candidacy. Their...
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Underworld is a very fine novel worth reading in its bulky enterity, but the prologue is just spectacularly good. I'd call it the best writing about baseball ever except that.
Looking into the latest case of petty-dictator school administrators ordering an arbitrary strip search of young women [via], I saw from one of the petty dictators in question: Dan Crozier,.
Adam Liptak's roundup of a the forthcoming Supreme Court term -- one that could produce the most landmark rulings of any in quite some time -- is of course useful. What is likely to be the biggest case is well-known. This is one less prominent...
As if to prove the thesis of Tad Friend's depressing account of Hollywood sexism, the subsequent Anna Faris film is one of those sexist romantic comedies where to summarize the.
It's really tough to see how this could go wrong: Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said on Saturday that as president, he would consider sending American troops into Mexico to.
Peter Frase takes a long look at this “DJW” character, and is deeply dismayed by what he sees. On my claim about our inability to universally and definitely classify jobs: DJW totally effaces the real nature of work in a capitalist society. To pretend that...
Rangers v. Devil Rays: I missed the opening game in this series,which would be a problem if I was planning on picking Tampa Bay, because who would believe me? But.
Very possibly, your next senator from the state of Montana: This time around, Rehberg set his sights a little lower down the educational ladder. On a tour of a Montana.
Newt also considers heterosexual marriage a temporary aberration, so he's not really being discriminatory...
Building on my post from the other day about what the decline of coal is going to do to the already horrible economy of southern Appalachia, Brad Plumer weighs in.
Tigers v. World's Greatest Manifestation of Evil. This year has seen a truly wonderful development for a Yankees hater: the complete implosion of the Twins. Allah be praised, not only.