Was the U.S. Team the Victim of Anti-Americanism?
Every fan is a bit of a conspiracy theorist. Every outcome can be chalked up (unjustly) to poor judgment or prejudice on the part of the referee. If the U.S. wanted to insure themselves against such a fate, they could have learned from their match against England and played with urgency from the first whistle. Torres could have tucked back and picked up Birsa rushing on to score the first goal. Demerit and Onyewu could have communicated to keep Ljubijankic offsides on the second. READ MORE >>
Latino Immigration and U.S. Soccer
Practically all the U.S. stars—Landon Donovan, Jozy Altidore, "Oguchi" Onyewu, and Tim Howard—are the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves. But—despite an ever growing tide of immigration from soccer-frenzied Latin America, Hispanic representation on the national side has not kept pace. READ MORE >>
Kenneth the Page Becomes a Man
SESTAK vs. SPECTER
Specter of Defeat
Your Iraqi Election Cheat Sheet
Who's Causing Gridlock On A Senate Climate Bill?
The New York Times' John Broder writes an obituary for cap-and-trade today (an obituary that, earlier this morning, John Kerry said “couldn't be further from the truth”) that had this odd passage: READ MORE >>
Old Senator, New Tricks
Frank Luntz On How To Pass A Climate Bill
For a long time, GOP pollster Frank Luntz was mainly known as the guy who wrote a 2002 memo advising the Bush administration to "make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate [about global warming]." So it was a little surprising to see him this morning at the National Press Club, teaming up with the Environmental Defense Fund on a new set of poll findings about climate legislation. Even Luntz couldn't help joking about it: "When [EDF president] Fred asked me to do this with him, I asked, 'Do you know who I am?' " READ MORE >>
Why Is Everybody Getting So Upset About Soil?
Once again, Australia is getting criticized at Copenhagen, only this time it’s not for its weak climate targets—it’s about how the country hopes to achieve those targets. The latest rumor is that Australia will only commit to a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020 if it wins a controversial rule change that would exclude "extraordinary events or circumstances," such as fires or droughts, when measuring the country's emissions. READ MORE >>
