The New Republic

From the Times' website: Star in New Role, Gore Revisits Old Stage By MARK LEIBOVICH and PATRICK HEALY For Al Gore, returning to Capitol Hill is akin to a recovering alcoholic returning to a neighborhood bar. --Isaac Chotiner READ MORE >>

If this was November and YouTube was the voting system, we would probably have a new president by a landslide. Since announcing their candidacies, almost all of the 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls have established YouTube channels, and, based on the number of views of each channel, the primary race is going to be an easy one: Obama is in the lead with over 600,000 views, while Hillary is a distant second with 51,000. READ MORE >>

Via Dave Roberts, here's the rousing tale of how John Boehner decided which House Republicans would get to serve on the new select committee on climate change: READ MORE >>

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think By Brian Wansink (Bantam, 276 pp., $25) READ MORE >>

by Daniel Drezner The Economist was good enough to review my new book All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes in their latest issue. Even better, the magazine liked the book. READ MORE >>

Breaking news from Roll Call: READ MORE >>

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When James Dobson gets angry, people notice. And, in early March, the influential chair of Focus on the Family fired off a very angry letter to the board of the National Association of Evangelicals. Tony Perkins of The Family Research Council signed it. So did Gary Bauer. So did 22 other conservative Christian leaders. Their complaint? It seems that Richard Cizik, NAE's vice-president for governmental affairs, had been sounding the alarm on global warming. READ MORE >>

I know that the internationalization of our universities is high on everybody's wish list, at least with everybody who makes a living in our academic institutions. Probably, however, much of this is just a scam. "The higher learning" is not everywhere the higher learning. So, many mediocre intellects come from foreign countries to less than mediocre colleges and graduate schools, and the most one can say about these enrollments is that they are a favorable cash transaction for the U.S. READ MORE >>

Michael Specter has an important piece in the New Yorker (only an abstract is available online) on AIDS denialists. These are the people who, like those who thought the earth was flat, claim that HIV does not cause AIDS (indeed, some of them allege that contracting the virus can be beneficial to your health). READ MORE >>