Finally gets what's coming to him: With findings very similar to the Freeh report, Attorney General Linda Kelly today announced charges of conspiracy, obstruction, perjury and child endangerment against former Penn State president Graham Spanier, vice president Gary Schultz and athletic director Tim Curley.
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It just dawned on me that I asked my students to write about the historical context of race and gender relations in 1996. They have no idea what it was.
Will the difference between Obama and Romney matter for the Supreme Court? Professional obfuscator of significant partisan differences David Sirota says no. And if a pundit who doesn't actually know.
Earlier this week some wiseacre professor at the Columbia School of Journalism held a George Will parody contest for his students in a seminar on the making of the modern punditocracy. The assignment required writing the lede for one of Will's columns. The only ground...
This piece by Bady and Konczal is essential reading. A teaser: When Reagan assumed office, he immediately set about doing exactly what he had promised. He cut state funding for.
Reassuring to know that Dick Morris thinks there will be a Romney landslide. -(Dick Morris) works about as well as the most sophisticated model.
Ben Jacobs's piece reminds me of my favorite part of the Politico's war on Nate Silver. As others have pointed out, this botched hack cliche is comedy gold: For this.
Glenn has found yet another "provocative" (or is that proactive? Third party vanity campaigns -- a totally strategically dynamic new paradigm!) piece arguing that True Progressives should be working to.
I'm a bit outraged by Paul Anderson's piece arguing essentially that NFL players have the right to play after they've had a concussion. Anderson argues that our national concussion outrage should focus on college football--and he's right about that. During last week's Arizona-USC game, Arizona...
Excellent story about a reporter in Williamson County, Texas (deep red suburbs north of Austin) trying to vote with a utility bill as an ID. Mind you, Texas doesn't require.
No evening is complete without a track from the album Senator Sam Ervin put out after the Watergate hearings.