I should start this post by saying that I couldn't care one way or the other about the success of FiveThirtyEight. Nate Silver has done good work on both sports and elections, but that doesn't mean that he is inherently better at reporting or shaping news...
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, I debate independent air forces with Adam Lowther:
Is, as you would expect, looking pretty grim. One upshot: nuts to Brian Schweitzer. You'd have to think that if he was running Democratic chances in Montana would be a.
The LA Weekly's piece about the decline of Pacifica is a really terrific read. I'll pick out a few choice bits at random. First, the ratings: Pacifica has a long and storied history, and still features such leading liberals as Amy Goodman, the widely known host...
Like you ever thought Molly Pitcher wasn't the Kool-Aid pitcher.
If you saw the Drive-by Truckers last night at the House of Blues in Boston, well, consider yourself unlucky enough to have been in my presence. It was a pretty.
Forget robbing casinos. The real money for Clooney and the gang to go rob in elaborate, fashionable, humorous, and fairly pointless ways is from megachurches like Joel Osteen's. Joel Osteen recently reported the theft of $600,000 from the safe in his church, but the theft wasn’t...
The rich man's Tim Tebow will need to find employment elsewhere.
So, I was reading this entry (which is mostly about Bruno Mars and Katy Perry) at Crooked Timber and I was excitedly composing all these responses (to both the post.
JoePa and Coach K share life lessons Q: How many times in the last ten NCAA tournaments has Duke seriously underperformed relative to its seeding? A: Eight.
The companies advancing the farcically specious religious freedom arguments against the contraception non-mandate want their employees to get even less for the health insurance they pay for with their labor.
Because white preschoolers are suspended for "observable offenses," whereas black preschoolers are suspended for being uppity. Just look at that kid's uppity little face. Does he look like he wants.