Just so we're clear: Last month, a woman was admitted to a hospital in Galway, Ireland. She was 17 weeks pregnant with a wanted child. She was experiencing severe back pain. She was found to be miscarrying the pregnancy. Within days, she was dead. Why? Because...
Ezra asks a question I think of a lot of Democrats are asking now and were asking in early 2009--Does Barack Obama want Mitch McConnell to be Majority Leader? Obama.
I suppose one could argue that devoting real estate in the New York Times to a review of a Times Square "restaurant" serving Southern Southwestern corn dog batter to particularly.
I know that Robert Bray is a professional historian but the idea that Lincoln has useful lessons for President Obama as he enters his second term is 20 degrees of absurd. Can we do 2 things? First, let's look at Lincoln in his actual context and...
The legacy of wild horses in the West is somewhat complicated. They are iconic, evoking images of a lost, wild and romantic West. On the other hand, they can be.
Speaking of hack narratives that were of dubious accuracy even in 2004, it's hard to be more consistently wrong in a more predictable way than Mr. William Galston. How many.
Am I the only one who thinks this grizzly bear chair presented to Andrew Johnson in 1865 really seals his image as a villain? Who can't see him drunkenly spewing racist epithets while sitting here? Did he click his fingers against the grizzly bear claws while...
Exhibit A: The rise of 8-legged frogs. These happen at the end of a long ecological chain that begins with farm runoff from our heavily fertilized agricultural landscapes. Exhibit B:.
Ah, the FBI. Ask them to prove any case involving a triviality like torture or financial fraud, you're out of luck. But if someone might be involved in the sexytime.
So I am getting more than a bit sick and tired of poorly contextualized ruminations on the ruin landscape of Detroit. Some of this art and writing is interesting enough on its own. Marc Binelli's piece for instance is alright and does sort of get at...
Robert Barnwell Rhett would be embarrassed to learn that his self-parodying ideological heirs are, it seems, actually pleading with the Twelfth Imam to set them the fuck free already. The.
The other day, Scott mentioned the absurd yet pervasive idea that Karl Rove is a political supergenius. Particularly bizarre to me is the idea that he played an important role.