I'd always wondered why rain smelled so good after a dry period. I first noticed this in the summer growing up in Oregon, when it doesn't rain. Then in September it would rain and it would always smell like this. And then it always smelled that...
Nicholas Stephanopoulos makes a really important point: Although it’s superficially appealing, the argument for judicial deference is wrong. The ability of gay rights groups to win ordinary political battles is.
I had a couple things to add to Rob's excellent article. First, see Drezner and Joyner. I endorse pretty much all of Rob's argument, but the particularly structure of academic.
In this podcast, Steven Attewell, author of the indispensable Race for the Iron Throne blog and general internet celebrity, joins Yours Truly for a rousing discussing of "Valar Dohaeris" that was in no way ruined by me posting everything I had to say about the episode...
[ERIK SAYS] This podcast discusses Ari Kelman's new book, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek. It explores how different groups contest the historical meanings of the.
I suppose the mainstream media infatuation with Crazy Uncle Liberty's son, the Neoconfederate Ophthalmologist, was inevitable.
Will be in Toronto conferencing later this week. I know nothing about this place except for a) the Blue Jays and b) I get to pay with stuff in some form of currency called a "loonie." Other than indulging my fantasies of a United States that...
(It goes without saying that this is one those visual rhetoric posts.) The title of the third season premier of Game of Thrones comes from the traditional Braavosi exchange: one.
Free agency in baseball is basically dead, at least for high-end players. Players' current teams are buying the best players out of free agency with long-term deals that will keep.
I am really skeptical of guestworker programs doing anything other than providing a structure to exploit vulnerable workers. The history of guestworker programs is basically terrible and the present isn't much better. The Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO came to a deal last weekend on including...
It will allow things that are already possible to be possible: Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party, told the Marietta Daily Journal in a story published Saturday that.
My article at Political Science and Politics is now available, gated here (Complicating the Political Scientist as Blogger. PS: Political Science and Politics, 46:2 (April 2013), pp. 383-386), ungated here. Key.