Wisconsin's new GOP governor is threatening to call in the National Guard to enforce his unilateral revocation of state employee contract rights.
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From Jay McInerney's review of Kenneth Slawenski's new Salinger biography: For this reader, the great achievement of Slawenski’s biography is its evocation of the horror of Salinger’s wartime experience. Despite.
Marc Lynch shares Charli's judgment about the Mubarak speech: It's hard to exaggerate how bad Hosni Mubarak's speech today was for Egypt. In the extended runup to his remarks, every.
The GOP primary season is shaping up as a reality TV freak show of Springeresque proportions, what with Michele Bachmann about to toss her tinfoil hat in the ring, Donald Trump threatening to make America "respected" again, and Sarah Palin continuing to mull whether to...
Of course not. Open questions: 1) Did Mubarak gamble that people would be exhausted and react with disappointment instead of anger? 2) Is he hoping the protesters will snap to.
Obviously, I agree with Ann and Matt. In particular, I'm not going to go along with the dominant centrist wisdom that pro-choicers should concede up front that abortion is immoral.
Not surprising, of course: The Egyptian military has secretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak began, and at least some of these detainees have been tortured, according to testimony gathered by the Guardian. The military...
"You know what's interesting about the word 'big'? It's smaller than the word 'small.' And the word 'little.' And even the word 'tiny.' How can that be?" I sometimes have.
This scene from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica pilot - the first in which Commander Adama and President Roslin meet - is emblematic of three politically significant conversations underpinning the series..
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Every day women choose to do the hard labor of a difficult pregnancy. Its courageous work, which inspires in me a degree of admiration exceeded only by my horror at the notion of the state turning that courage, that hard labor, into a mandate. Women...
Woo-hoo! I tell ya, if 2002 ever comes back he'll be an exciting prospect. Anyone know if Scott Sanders is still available?
I'll have to call this for the former about 30 seconds into the first round.