June 20, 2013
Fertile Imagination
Jeb Bush says Hispanics have more babies, helping us meet funding shortfalls. He's only half right.
June 19, 2013
R.I.P. James Gandolfini, The Man Who Gave Us Tony Soprano
The closest Tony Soprano ever comes to saving his appalling soul is late in Season 1 of “The Sopranos”. His daughte
The Band of Leakers
The nominal occasions for a conference call today with “Julian Assange & Whistleblowers” were, obviously, EdwardNew York Times Article Reaches Astonishing Levels of Hilarity
John Harwood has a piece in The New York Times today that exemplifies such astonishing levels of silly conventional wisd
Can the NBA Sell Obamacare to the American People?
Last night LeBron James came through for the Miami Heat. Can he also come through for Obamacare? As Politico’s Kyle C
LeBron James, Our Great American Novel
During the fourth quarter of the instant-classic Game Six of the NBA Finals last night (one of the “two or three” be
Don't Give Republicans' Anti-Abortion Strategy Too Much Credit
Yesterday, that venerable institution, the U.S. House of Representatives, passed yet another Republican-backed bill that
The Appeal of the Antiheroine
Two new novels get not-nice just rightJune 18, 2013
Those $%@#&! Russians Aren't Always Wrong
It was no surprise that, after speaking in private for two hours in Northern Ireland, President Barack Obama and RussianThe Offensive Reaction to Vice's Offensive Suicide-Fashion Spread
Vice's June fiction issue does what the magazine does best (or worst, depending on your taste): combine culture and contPrepare to Forget About the NSA
The president’s approval rating has dipped, probably because of the NSA surveillance revelations or the accumulated ef
Did NYU Screw Over Its Famous Chinese Dissident?
Sussing out Chen Guangcheng’s allegations against his host.
Bobby Jindal, Meet Strunk And White
Barely had the executive jets departed Boston's Logan Airport filled with disappointed Mitt Romney backers after the 201The Two-State Solution is Dying
No one except, perhaps, Secretary of State John Kerry, thinks that the current Israeli government is willing to negotiat
Obama Ist Kein Berliner
Fifty years after JFK's visit, and five since his own, Obama returns to Berlin—to a different mood.
Explaining the Global Warming Hiatus
Its a climate-change mystery: As global warming has plateaued, scientists are more certain than ever about the long term trend. But where did the heat go?
