My column this week thinks through the Army post-COIN, post-Afghanistan: The fact that the Army lacks a clear opponent to define itself against complicates its ability to make a case for its future role. The Navy and the Air Force may face difficulties explaining their roles...
Yesterday LGM's palatial capital region offices received their copy of Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind. If I understand correctly, one of the book's main arguments is that attempts to distinguish.
Friend of LGM and dismayingly relevant author Charles Pierce has a new politics blog at Esquire, which is of course excellent. See, for example, this analysis of the Republican attack.
An interesting discussion in the comment thread to Erik's post on the welcome decline of robocheckers below. There's been some mild pushback against the notion of resisting robocheckers out of solidarity with the actual paycheck-drawing, rent-paying, family-feeding workers. The pushback is of the sort of "that...
Y'know, I'm just going to go out on a limb and declare that Terry Francona's decision to use Alfredo Aceves out of the bullpen in the final week was a.
Now this is fascinating. What's particularly interesting is that the decline of pumpkin beer in the early 19th century was not about temperance, but about a modernizing nation turning its.
I would be remiss to not mention the death of the great African environmentalist, feminist, and activst Wangari Maathai. The Kenyan activist began her activist career by figuring out that paying women to plant trees would both provide employment for women and protect the land. She...
Atrios points us to this piece on supermarkets pulling back from the self-checkout stands. I am very glad to see this. As Atrios points out, these things are nothing more.
While I often like Mark Bittman, like a lot of the recent generation of food writers (and, all too often, environmental writers more broadly), he talks down to the poor..
We don't know if the Red Sox will complete the choke, but they've already blown it. And while Epstein isn't to blame for the choke per se, it's hard to escape the conclusion that Cashman and (especially) Friedman have been running rings around him for a...
Logically consistent Maggie Gallagher: The fact that members of LGM are not routinely given speaking gigs by Republican organizations is a clear violation of their civil rights. Shorter Maggie Gallagher: .
Two incidents from yesterday's NFL action: (1) Detroit is punting from their own five in a tie game with Minnesota. The clock is running and Minnesota has no time outs..