If you're going to assert that perfectly accurate Democratic claims about Paul Ryan's plan to end Medicare are false, why not go all the way and make it your lie of the year? The defenses of this, as Bouie, Benen, Chait, and Yglesias note, are entertainingly...
On December 24, 1861, the first anniversary of South Carolina's secession from the Union, the Palmetto State celebrated. And it's not surprising because a year into their rebellion, things looked.
Jennifer Rubin is so hacktacular that Pareene's extensive catalog doesn't even have space for a particularly hilarious bit: she's so in the tank for Mittens that she attacked Newt Gingrich.
Ah, another bigot who believes she has the constitutional right not to do her job while still getting paid. Fortunately, the appellate courts have had a more rational view so far.
If you ever wanted to see how companies work to defeat union votes, check out this Virgin Atlantic unionbusting site. It's pretty gross. They vote tomorrow so the site will.
My friend Jay Rubenstein has been promoting his new book about the first Crusade with a series of pieces at HuffPo. His latest asks whether the Crusades or early Jihad.
There's a debate among the legions of non-tenure track English and language faculty on whether to occupy the MLA this December in protest of their organization's disinterest in addressing the massive employment problems for PhDs. They argue that the MLA holds real power over institutions and...
Classic Onion headline: Those We Lost In 2011 From left, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-il, Col. Muammar Qaddafi, Family Circus creator Bil Keane, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. I.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about the attacks on the federal judiciary increasingly made by several Republican candidates, all of whom apparently have yet to be informed.
While going over the new employment and salary figures posted by Chicago and Ohio State I had one of those insights about something which seems incredibly obvious once one has noticed it, which makes it all the more vexing that I hadn't noticed it previously. It's...
Again, Newt wasn't running for president until very recently, and that makes him the wrong person to take advantage of Romney's very real vulnerabilities. Even if he ends up on.
Last week I blogged heads with Sam Roggeveen of the Lowy Institute: Tragically, we failed to have a forward looking conversation about a post-Kim Jong Il North Korea. However, last.