Foreign Policy’s David Kenner has a reading list for President Obama to help him get read for his big speech to recast our relationship with the Arab world. Topping the Persian Gulf section is Crossroads Arabia, by our own John Burgess.
Romney wants to make a federalism based argument for why his MA health care bill is good, while the PPACA is tyrannical. However, just saying that is not an argument.
Can one effectively run for the presidency if one’s spouse doesn’t want to be in the spotlight?
An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)
Boehner wants some pretty big cuts in exchange for a vote on raising the debt ceiling.
The defense of torture as an extreme measure for extraordinary circumstances has evolved.tortu
There’s not much movement in the President’s job approval numbers.
A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.
Three years later, there are no signs that the real estate market is anywhere close to recovering.
Go the Fuck To Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland.
The NYT says it’s time for U. S. advisers and military air traffic controllers on the ground in Libya.
The new CBS/NYT poll is out and the numbers are not exactly happy, no matter whom you support.
It is waaay too early to be putting much stock in polling for 2012 (either in terms of X v. Obama or GOP v. GOP).
Paul Krugman is disappointed with the President, but it’s really his own fault for being so naive.
Breathless hysteria over the trend toward a less white America misses an important fact: most Hispanics are white.
The story that GE paid zero taxes last year despite mega-billion dollar profits is completely untrue.
Philip Greenspun wonders, “How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?”
Rather than fighting over the remnants of the FY 2011 budget, the GOP should make a deal and get ready for the bigger, and more important, battle ahead.
The experiences of two well-known academics denied tenure at Chicago provide some clues.
The New York Times wins for “Afghans Avenge Florida Koran Burning, Killing 12.”
Prejudice and negative attitudes towards obese individuals is becoming a global norm, not just an American phenomenon.
The U.S. seems to be on the verge of changing war strategies in Libya, even as it becomes clear that these rebels aren’t necessarily our friends.
Presenting photo identification is not an onerous requirement for voting. But there’s next to zero evidence that fraud is a problem.
A handful of young male bloggers have launched themselves to the head of the line, leapfrogging those who’ve spent years playing the game by the old rules.juice
Xavier Alvarez lied about having been awarded the Medal Of Honor. Should that be a crime? The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals says no, and they’re right.
Is asking to see a professor’s e-mails a legitimate open records request or is it an attempt at silencing a critic?
GE made $14.2 billion in profits last year but paid zero corporate taxes to the United States Government. Legally.
The uneasy coalition that coalesced around action in Libya will be strained by decisions to come.
Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.
In less than two weeks, much of the content of The New York Times will go behind a paywall.
