Phillies v. Reds: I'll be rooting for the Reds, but...this is probably the biggest mismatch in the first round. This isn't about the Reds, who you could argue enter the playoffs as the second-best team in the NL. But the Phillies are not merely easily...
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From an excellent David Carr article about the decline of the Tribune Company, a representative anecdote: Mr. Michaels, a former radio executive and disc jockey, had been handpicked by Sam.
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the question on whether prosecutors can be liable if they violate the constitutional rights of the accused. The background of the case.
Ah, prescience: Summers remained close to Rubin and to Alan Greenspan, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve. When other economists began warning of abuses and systemic risk in the financial system deriving from the environment that Summers, Greenspan, and Rubin had created, Summers mocked...
Longtime readers will recall Ann Althouse constructing a fantasy-world moderate Sam Alito based on one (exceptionally weak) piece of evidence. Streamlining her apologism, she is now making claims about the.
I'm told The Donalde claims I'm "obsessing" over him in a rather nonsensical way—my ardent defense of community college students is actually an attack on community college students somehow—so I.
While waiting for SEK, once again MZS has a good take on a fantastic episode. Has any show of quality ever reached a new peak in its fourth year? Well, yes, The Simpsons, but a drama? That certainly seems where Mad Men...
In an International Affairs article earlier this year, Mary Martin and Taylor Owen point out that the term is all but dead, both in the UN system and within the.
Dahlia Lithwick and Barry Friedman have a very strong article about the various camouflages used by the Roberts Court. There's nothing new about most of this stuff -- selecting favorable.
Though I tend to disagree with his criticism of other science fiction authors, I do love it when Scalzi embraces his titular WHATEVER and goes off on an anti-objectivist rant: It’s no exaggeration when I say that Atlas Shrugged probably saved my sanity on that bus...
The Yankee-hater had a real dilemma yesterday -- it's not clear whether their losing the division was actually a good thing or not. Having thought about it, the difference between.
Apparently, David Brooks' ability to disguise propaganda as literary criticism might exceed his ability to disguise propaganda as restaurant criticism: Whereas Myers only tells one major lie about the book’s.