Via Plumer, Adam Liptak discusses the case of a 20-year-old in Florida serving life without parole for lending some friends his car. What's particularly useful in the article is that Liptak makes clear how unusual it is for the U.S. to have retained the concept of...
Searching around in a hurry for some reading material for the gym, I found an issue of Esquire on my magazine pile, and came across this from Certified Teller of.
Megan stakes out her preference:I believe that just as there are Elvis people and Beatles people, there are Rowling people and there are Tolkien people. Sure, you may enjoy both,.
Stephen Metcalf hits back at Saletan, and leaves a mark:The crux of Saletan's pieces was his Liberal Creationist analogy. The analogy is hopeless along several competing dimensions, but it reminded me of the Dilettante's First Law of Empirical Narcissism. In a moment of controversy, the temptation...
For the last two years, we have justified putting a missile defense system in Eastern Europe explicitly around the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles. In addition to the extraordinary financial.
It's not at all unusual for me to change my opinions of Coen brothers' films on repeated viewings; I like The Big Lebowski and Intolerable Cruelty more each time I.
So the British schoolteacher in Sudan -- the teddy bear idolater -- has been released and pardoned on charges of insulting Islam. Not having followed the case at all, I'm nevertheless delighted when the scales tip in favor of those undeservedly accused and convicted of violating...
We've all got to just face facts: we have lost the drug war. In a lengthy article in Rolling Stone, Ben Wallace-Wells tells us why. In short, after Escobar was.
Franklin Foer has officially withdrawn his support for the reporting of Scott Beauchamp. I'm not terribly surprised with how this turned out, having thought from the beginning that the stories.
As if the high prices and the fact that I have the greenmarket and Chelsea Market nearby weren't enough, they go and totally misunderstand a basic tenet of Jewish eating. Exhibit A:I don't know about you, but I enjoy a good ham 'n' cheese sandwich on...
Via Ann, Megan Carpentier finds that the "Medicare program spent $450 each on about 47,000" penis pumps, although "Medicaid (which serves low income Americans) only covers abortions in the case.
Hugo Chavez's referendum has apparently gone down to a narrow defeat. This is a good thing for reasons that Randy Paul explains here.