Obama has gone from nominally supporting Social Security cuts attached to conditions that ensured they couldn't pass to explicitly not supporting them, and good. This comments thread is now particularly entertaining reading if you're a connoisseur of very high arrogance-to-knowledge ratios.
We cocky Jacobin secular liberals are used to Damon Linker's moderately culturally conservative concern trolling by now. I must say, however, that this is a twist I didn't expect: The.
This commercial is getting heavy rotation during the Olympics coverage. Its social theory is that Americans live in multimillion dollar houses because they work harder than the latte-sipping denizens of.
If you are like me, you know basically nothing about Ukraine and the protests going on there. This was tremendously useful. In part: More subtly, what this campaign does is attempt to reduce the social tensions in a complex country to a battle of symbols about...
You may remember Naomi Schaefer Riley from such self-refuting arguments as "African-American studies is a completely worthless field; for my evidence, allow me to re-type some titles of dissertations I.
Per this summons, Baltimore Ravens' star running back Ray Rice hit his girlfriend so hard that he knocked her unconscious. (She allegedly hit him first, so she's also being charged.
My new "Internet Film School" column is up. Sample: Typically, romances rely on a small stable of predictable-but-effective techniques that convince the audience it’s witnessing the first, chemical blush of fresh love. The most basic of these techniques is the two-shot, in which the director places...
Via Sullivan -- who notes that on the odious anti-civil rights bill the National Review is now to the right of the Kansas Republican Party -- one of the moldiest.
19th century tool of Russian authoritarianism, meet 21st century Russian anarchist performance art collective: Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the group tried.
David Cameron: David Cameron says he is giving unemployed Britons “new hope and responsibility” by cutting their benefit payments and claims his welfare reforms are part of a “moral mission” for the country. In an article for the Telegraph, the Prime Minister issues a sharp rebuke...
The geologically stable state of Oklahoma has experienced over 500 measurable earthquakes in 2014, far and away already a record for the state and it is February. Why? Fracking, duh..
A history of predictions about the coming emergence of a third party, often from people who are paid to write about American politics despite apparently not knowing much of anything.