The good news is that the web is awash in reports that Hosni Mubarak has fled Egypt. (Update: Mubarak is currently on TV claiming he's not going anywhere). The bad news is that the New York Times is quoting Donald Douglas on the subject. I...
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For somewhat obscure reasons the Challenger disaster became, in the USA, what (much more understandably) the assassination of JFK had been for a previous generation: a shocking event whose symbolic.
I wouldn't say that anything House Republicans could do would surprise me at this point, but this is appalling even by contemporary Republican standards. Nick Baumann: With this legislation, which.
Shorter Maggie Gallagher: "Roe v. Wade helped destroy the country by reducing the number of unwanted births that would otherwise result from anal sex." And the nuttiness doesn't even end there! We have yet more historical ignorance propping up inherently appalling attempts to analogize abortion...
I have absolutely no opinion about any of the candidates for mayor of Chicago on the merits. But largely for the reasons Richard Hasen suggests, I think the Illinois Supreme.
“Why are there so many First Christian Churches? Do they all want to be number one? And why should this matter? Isn’t the whole thing about God that he loves.
Although she couldn't even make Horowitz's The Very Most Dangerous People in the Known Universe (Including Known Trotskyites Elana Kagan, Roger Ebert and Michael Berube) list, apparently Glenn Beck has determined that Frances Piven is this week's history's greatest monster. And while Beck is certainly...
Two teaching notes: My COIN syllabus is now up. Behold, etc. The iTunes shell for my Defense Statecraft course is now ready. If you've ever thought "I really wish I.
The consensus in the comments that the author of The Story of O was a winger operative as opposed to a "centrist" pundit was correct. I also now wonder if.
If you're looking for something to read forInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day, let me humbly suggest Adam Jones' volume Evoking Genocide, which has won a 2010 Outstanding Academic Title Award by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine. Here's their review: This compilation has a simple yet fascinating...
Shorter Fred Hiatt: We are disappointed that Barack Obama didn't boldly come out in favor for slashing Social Security for people younger than me. This leaves open the possibility that.
Ben O'Loughlin provides a few more examples why complete information freedom isn't always in the public interest: When delicate political negotiations are needed, perhaps journalists need to get out of.