Last year, we quite remarkably learned that it was possible to be too dumb to win the Republican nomination for president. And now, apparently a bill can be too evil to pass the Republican House: Partisan accusations of broken promises erupted Thursday as a House five-year...
Major bummer that the Worldport at JFK is going to be demolished. I suppose it was pretty well inevitable given the space considerations at the airport, but it's a pretty.
I long ago lost much interest in the NBA, but seventh games are always interesting, and this does seem to represent a clash of the two iconic teams of the.
While this piece is perhaps a bit too condescending to middle-aged homeowners, it does get at a very real problem. The entire structure of the postwar housing market is extremely shaky. Not only the larger financial issues and housing bubbles creating by profiteering. There's also a...
West Virginia turns 150 today. Forged in the rejection of treason in defense of slavery, the state developed into a medieval fiefdom of the coal industry with much of the.
GQ has an interesting feature story on David Chase and The Sopranos, which includes some vignettes about James Gandolfini. Per the story, Gandolfini struggled with the fame the show brought.
I keep on reading that the title of this season's penultimate Mad Men episode, "The Quality of Mercy," is "a phrase from Shakespeare" without any explanation as to what its significance might be. Todd's the exception, but his account of the play muddies his most pressing...
So, there was an important Sixth Amendmentsentencing law case decided by the Supreme Court today, dealing with the question of what counts as a "violent felony" for the purposes of.
Emily Bazelon has an excellent piece on legislation in Florida that would require executions to happen 180 days after a single round of appeals by federal and state courts and.
It's the end of the quarter -- and my academic career for that matter -- so I'm finally almost not behind on everything. But even belatedly I must say this: anyone complaining about another opportunity to watch Jesus Shuttlesworth hit an improbable, game-tying shot over the...
In case you don't already know, today is National Martini Day. I assume you are celebrating appropriately. That not only means that you are drinking a martini, but that the.
Wow. Tragic. ... I'm certain that Scott and Erik and the other Scott will have their own contributions, but for my part Gandolfini is the key figure of the acting.