Some quality journamalism: The Associated Press previously cited an indictment stated McAuliffe had lied to a federal investigator regarding the death benefits scheme. The AP has since retracted those reports, saying McAuliffe was not the "T.M." that had lied to investigators. The fact that the "T.M."...
For your viewing pleasure, an awesome B-58 propaganda film. It was obsolete before it became operational, but it was AWESOME. Via Dave Mujumdar at Dew Line.
AN admiral ranked as second-in-command of the United States' nuclear forces has been stood down after he was caught with fake gambling chips at a casino. The US Navy says.
Well, it's nice to see that war criminals and their most servile apologists can still enjoy a good chuckle: Dick Cheney is ready to laugh about waterboarding. Conservatives gathered at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan Monday night to roast the former vice president at an event...
Stanley Kauffmann, the dean of American film criticism and one of the greatest film critics in history, has passed. He worked for decades at The New Republic, including in the.
Whoops. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With the Republican-controlled House of Representatives engaged in a tense, government-shuttering budgetary standoff against a Democratic president and Senate, the Republican Party is now viewed favorably.
Like many people, I'm struggling to find evidence of rationality in the suicide caucus strategy and end game here. I get that they're willing to destroy tacit norms of legislative behavior, and even ignore normative assumptions about the meaning of elections and the legislative process (i.e....
You thought the government shutdown wasn't really affecting you? Well, no new beers can come on the market while the government is shut down. Mike Brenner is trying to open.
If you think that American democracy is insufficiently tilted towards the wealthy, the Supreme Court has good news coming for you! Lithwick has more.
This post is part of a series. Next week Washington's Wardman Park hotel will be invaded by 800 or so people looking for jobs as law professors, at the annual hiring conference put on by the Association of American Law Schools. "Experiential learning" is the buzz...
So states Arsenal's Jack Wilshere in his sober reflection on who ought to qualify for the English national soccer football team. I should ask him if ten years counts for.
It's Yellen for the Fed. Good for Obama for making what was obviously the correct choice, and good for the Senate Democrats who pushed Obama to make the correct choice.