I'm rooting for Ezra Klein's new project to succeed, and he's brought some first-rate talent (including Brad Plumer and Sarah Kliff) to his new venture. I am, however, puzzled why he would hire a dispositive argument against "contrarianism" like Brandon Ambrosino. (Apparently B. Daniel Blatt was...
If you've been paying attention to the internet conversation on security, defense, and technology, you've probably become at least vaguely familiar with The Loopcast. I had a good, long (over.
And we're back, just in time to finish up the first season before the fourth starts. We recorded this a few months back, so our pop culture and political references.
That is what a former Florida "Teacher of the Year" who was sentenced to 40 years in jail for sexually assaulting a fourth grader told The Florida Times-Union in a profile they did of him in 2012. Way to go, Florida. Way to go. (And yes,...
At the Diplomat, I express some doubts about the LRS-B next generation bomber: What is the LRS-B for? Conflicting reports have emerged over the likely cost of the USAF’s next.
Konczal's response to the widely-discussed Adolph Reed essay makes an excellent point: This [assertion that "the two parties converging in policy"] is the kind of stuff that drives liberals up.
In comments last night, dollared said this about the decline of unionized meatpacking: Allowing free immigration and mass union busting by illegal aliens. Never, ever, ever should have happened. 800,000-1M union jobs lost in meatpacking. Bill Clinton. Now I don't want to pick on dollared except...
Which one is worse? Exhibit A Exhibit B Be sure to show your work, as partial credit will be given.
There are many, many potential stories, from fluffy to serious, that a major news organization can plausibly consider covering. "Were the many children Jerry Sandusky was convicted of raping really.
While I'm sure there are plenty of hilarious bits, the price that someone would have to pay to get me to watch this would seem to be prohibitive: Among other reasons to oppose reform, Coulter said: It would help Democrats. "You want the Democrats who want...
I have a piece in The Week about True Detective. What sort of moral responsibility do artists have not to exploit, and thereby perhaps propagate, moral panics? The aesthetic power.
One of the most predictable responses to any criticism of a heretofore socially respectable entity is that the critics have hidden and disreputable motives. The critics, it's said, want to.