On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, Meir Javedanfar speaks with Emily Landau about Iran and the commitment problem:
It's not just the state of the oceans that makes me want to drink. Reading about the Great Lakes will do just fine. Tiny plastic beads used in hundreds of.
DB: The following was written by Ken McGlothlen over the course of the last couple of weeks. I've known Ken since my undergraduate days. We both attended the University of.
Relentless in bringing to light the problems with limited regulation of firearms, on Friday Mother Jones discussed the 194 children killed by guns since Newton. They break it down as 103 homicides, 84 accidents, three suicides, and four "unclear" (but just as dead). 127 were killed...
Is there a pre-atomic era film about the world ending?
One of the great women of film noir has passed. She's perhaps best known for her work in Lady in the Lake, which is famous primarily for being shot entirely.
It's excellent to have Nina Pillard confirmed to the D.C. Circuit. Although who knows what radical transformations of American society will ensue? Of course we might really come to regret the filibuster, as Senate Republicans have concocted a fiendish plan to waste everyone's time before Obama's...
I'm plowing through Hang Nguyen's Hanoi's War, a history of the war from the view of North Vietnam's elite, and ran across this: On 13 April, the Chinese leader argued.
OK, here’s a “Walking Dead” mid-season finale open thread. *SPOILERS MENTIONED--READ WITH CAUTION* It was pretty brutal: lots of death, lots of gore, lots of heartbreak. We lost The Guvna..
Our own Origami Isopod pointed me to this article about a Silicon Valley douchebro who is grossed out by all the mentally ill poor people in San Francisco. I’m sure that most of you expect me to talk about his tacky and disturbing lack of empathy,...
First we have Larry Summers, for calling for university presidents to not fund faculty who want to attend the American Studies Association meeting. If the ASA had instead pushed to.
Given that the 2013-14 series is in Australia, I'm not following it as closely as 2005, 2009, or this past summer. Instead, I've been waking up each morning to the.