John Le Carré on Philip Seymour Hoffman as A Most Wanted Man comes close to its release date. I'm excited about it but it's going to be hard to watch just because you know you are watching Hoffman's last great performance (I know he's in some...
Why can't Obama be more like Reagan? It is worth recalling that Reagan’s own response in 1983 did not get good reviews from the Fox News of the day. According to Richard Reeves’s “President Reagan,” (see.
Hmm... Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his.
I was trying to think of a funny way to talk about John C. Wright's latest meth-and-thesaurus-fueled word-vomit, but honestly I'm at a loss. So I'm just going to share a few passages with you and try to riff on them, knowing that my riffage cannot...
A few links on the ongoing MH17 investigation: RUSI: Russia in the Dock Two Likely Scenarios The Rebels and the Buk The European Reaction "A second chance" To my mind,.
I'll let Dave Futrelle take it from here...
I mostly agree with Harold Meyerson's essay on the Democrats reaping a huge political opportunity by refocusing itself on class-based issues. While I might quibble with a couple of points (not sure FDR's speechmaking is relevant plus it plays into green laternism), there's a lot to...
Damn. A Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in eastern Ukraine, Russian news agency Interfax reported Thursday. The jet is a Boeing 777, according to Interfax..
Rather than applying to a bunch individual comments, I thought I'd make a few points as we ponder changes to the comment section. Q: Why change? A: Trolls destroy potentially.
Things to click on and possibly read: The Supreme Court's war on women. Dan Shuaghnessy is making sense. (Really!) A searing memoir. How much better are the A's after the big trade? Cutting back on early voting is vote suppression, of course. Florida's gerrymander violated the...
A little racism with your breakfast. Some of the opposition has also bordered on the extreme. A few of the protesters who marched against a proposed shelter in Vassar, Mich.,.
A reliable maxim of the blogosphere is that no one likes change. In particular, no one likes changes to comment procedures, even as comment procedures produce one of the most.