This is academic inside baseball, but since that's obviously a disproportionate percentage of our audience, I'd thought I'd give some publicity to the issue here. The political science journal Gender and Politics has apparently decided to reject without external review any manuscript dealing with research on...
This Bob Herbert column makes a number of points that seem, to anyone ever-so slightly to the left of, say, Barack Obama, unexceptionable to the point of banality. That's not.
"Sarah Palin Hires Political Advisor". You mean she didn't already have one? No way. I've applied for a few jobs over the past five months, and . . . well.
Depressing, but not surprising: There have been about 350,000 arrests for marijuana possession since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took office in 2002, the policy alliance said. Seventy percent of those arrested are younger than 30, and 86 percent are black or Latino, even though, according to...
The anti-ACA lawsuit in Florida really does seem part of a larger desire to return to McKinleynomics. The Tea Party: make sure it doesn't happen to your state.
Wisconsin's new GOP governor is threatening to call in the National Guard to enforce his unilateral revocation of state employee contract rights.
From Jay McInerney's review of Kenneth Slawenski's new Salinger biography: For this reader, the great achievement of Slawenski’s biography is its evocation of the horror of Salinger’s wartime experience. Despite Salinger’s reticence, Slawenski admirably retraces his movements and recreates the savage battles, the grueling marches and...
And so, huh. Wow. ...suggestion seems to be that the military will take power. Interesting. In the long run, I think it matters A LOT that this went down with.
Marc Lynch shares Charli's judgment about the Mubarak speech: It's hard to exaggerate how bad Hosni Mubarak's speech today was for Egypt. In the extended runup to his remarks, every.
PTJ has an interesting idea: I did a little digging and thus far have been completely unable to locate something that I would have thought that someone would have already assembled: an online searchable database that mapped adviser-advisee relationships in IR. So far as I know,...
The GOP primary season is shaping up as a reality TV freak show of Springeresque proportions, what with Michele Bachmann about to toss her tinfoil hat in the ring, Donald.
Of course not. Open questions: 1) Did Mubarak gamble that people would be exhausted and react with disappointment instead of anger? 2) Is he hoping the protesters will snap to.