I think "epic botch" is going too far, but it certainly looks as if the strongest claims made about the collaboration between the NSA and tech companies in the initial Guardian and Washington Post stories are at this point unfounded: Fogel points out that a widely-read...
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam's personal financial stake in the company that received $330 million of outsourced state services. With bonus Roger Staubach involvement.
Matt Yglesias says, at least compared to the alternatives, yes: But now consider journalism. Do unpaid internships in the media industry lock poor kids out of the profession? I think that depends on what you think the likely alternative is. If the Labor Department cracks down,...
The story about this fully equipped 1961 nuclear fallout shelter is kind of awesome. But I have to ask, if you were in a bomb shelter suffering from a nuclear.
I welcome our judicial overlords, so long as they are able to pepper their opinions in fascinating trucking regulation cases with cutting-edge pop cultural references: The two directly at issue.
Pareene with some useful background about why the Washington D.C. football team has a vile racial slur for a nickname. It's not an unbroken tradition, and it wasn't a term that was considered racially neutral at the time: This Washington football team was named by one...
Cory Booker is going to be one very annoying senator.
This is unconscionable: In a striking showdown between Senator Carl Levin, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and a member of his own party, Mr. Levin said on Tuesday.
I have a piece in Salon about how asking if James Clapper committed perjury when testifying about the extent of government surveillance is in one sense the wrong question.
This is something Paul has discussed before, but it's hard to square most unpaid internships with federal labor law. Finally, at least one judge has decided to notice: The case.
By waiting to comment on this remarkable piece of work from Brooks, I'm able to outsource most of my incredulity. Start with Corey Robin on the literal Stalinism of Brooks's.