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And in the ten minutes I was posting my last Spine on Iraq, two Reuters dispatches were put on the Times web-site, one about a Muslim bomb attack killing three including a child, on a base in Tolo in the Phillipines, the other about a suicide attack, presumably by the Taliban, READ MORE >>

On the heels of her Internet support for the Rutgers women's basketball team, now Hillary is going to see them in person. One question: has she always been a Scarlet Knights fan? READ MORE >>

One of the (many) vexing things about our political culture is the ability of politicians to both define a speech they are giving as "big" and then rope the entire press corps into reporting tired cliches as newsworthy. Case in point: On the front page of the NYT's website, Adam Nagourney has a piece on John McCain's monumentally huge Iraq speech today, which the senator's campaign has been hyping for weeks. And what did the Arizonan say? READ MORE >>

by Darrin McMahonWho's tired of GNP? A lot of people, it seems. Open University readers may have heard about the new vogue of happiness economics, a discipline that draws on the insights of psychology to render the traditionally dismal science less dismal. Essentially, the idea is this: Survey data in the United States and elsewhere seems to READ MORE >>

I am finally in a hotel that has internet connections which work. This means I can catch up on the news and even reflect on it. Actually, the English language press--which means mainly the Hindustan Times and the Times of India--have virtually no reports from or on America or Europe. And even in its articles about India, the front page is usually devoted to cricket or stars of Bollywood. READ MORE >>

Well, the hotel at which I could finally read several newspaper READ MORE >>

Most coal companies aren't exactly thrilled by the prospect of Democrats putting a cap on carbon emissions in the coming years. So that means... lobbying. Whole shovels full. In March, the day before Al Gore testified before Congress on climate change, the coal industry held a $1,000-a-head fundraiser for Virginia Democrat Rick Boucher, chair of the House subcommittee in charge of global warming legislation. READ MORE >>

Last week, I blogged about the decision by American gay rights activists to not make use of the State Department's annual human rights report regarding the treatment of gays abroad. The activists in question say they refused to publicize the report because Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay have made any research compiled by the United States on human rights morally dubious. READ MORE >>

by Linda Hirshman Cass Sunstein has done us all his usual good service by bringing some old-fashionedcivic republican analysis to the newer phenomenon of the blogosphere. That similar trends have been observed in satellite TV and radio reflects, I fear, that the blogosphere at most, reinforces the polarization of the society. READ MORE >>

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