Over at the Diplomat a take a stab at thinking about how memory of the Iraq War will matter: The tenth anniversary of the launch of the Iraq War has helped spark a debate over how the war will be interpreted by history. Was the invasion...
I certainly believe that Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is a deeply flawed book. It's way too simplistic and polemical. Zinn was not much of a.
As Yglesias says, Brooks ends up making the case about as well as anyone actually trying to make it could. The former's summary is useful: Long story short, I would.
Losing to Robert Morris as the #1 seed on the opening night of the NIT... not what the good people of the Commonwealth had been hoping for. ... remember to fill out an LGM Tourney Challenge bracket. Password "zevon".
I've never actually read How Would a Patriot Act, or assessed the claims that Glenn was pro-Iraq War, until today: During the lead-up to the invasion, I was concerned that.
This is a good expose of the real story behind Abigail Fisher, the lead plaintiff in the case attempting to destroy the remnants of affirmative action in higher education admissions..
I thought it useful to reprint part of Senator Gaylord Nelson's speech from the first Earth Day, in 1970: I congratulate you, who by your presence here today demonstrate your concern and commitment to an issue that is more than just a matter of survival. How...
[An astute reader brought the sad tale of Alfredo Malspini III to my attention, and lest any of you shoot off a finger to spite a ring, I thought I'd.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about yesterday's oral arguments concerning Arizona's vote suppression initiative, which is (correctly) being challenged as inconsistent with the Motor Votor Act. (SPOLIER:.
Worth remembering in this week of March Madness that the labor, i.e,, the players, receive not one dime of the millions in revenue that the NCAA and schools pull in.
Shorter Christina Hoff Summers: "Men drive like this, women drive like this. So it's OK if the latter have constrained economic and political opportunities."
Continue to count me out of the "Richard Nixon was really a liberal because he was willing to sign some of the legislation a Democratic Congress put on his desk.