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Paul Waldman on the subject of painting Energy Department roofs white to save energy: I'm guessing conservatives will attack this idea, because ... well, because conservation is for wimps, or.
After seven years of living in the UK, two institutions that I admire (which never fails to invite derision from some quarters in Britain) are the BBC and the NHS..
With now multiple major oceanic oil spills occupying the world's attention, a few commentators and NGOs are trying to remind us of the various other ecological disasters that may be.
Now I see that Big Journalism is ablaze with this article in which The Daily Caller's Jonathan Strong reveals that the cosigners a letter published in The Nation in April.
Something that I and other colleagues have noted at institutions similar to my current employer is that there seems to be an omnipresent implied, when not explicit, anti-intellectual current defining.
This article addresses what should be a puzzling question: Why did Barack Obama nominate Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court? Not only has Kagan never been a judge, but, far.
Two good-news stories in the area of compliance with humanitarian norms this week: First, the US military has revoked the deployment of the Active Denial System, a "less-than-lethal" weapon designed.
Although we often focus on what divides us, it's important to remember that the "we demand Swedish level of social services with Mississippi levels of taxation and we could get.