By • Nov 06,2008

Comforting the comfortable

Watching a bizarrely subdued Chris Matthews in the above clip is like reading the tea leaves on what I fear* the next four years of MSM coverage are going to...

By • Nov 05,2008

Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton has died, after a lengthy (and private) battle with cancer. This makes me quite sad: I stumbled onto Crichton’s work in middle school and found it most entertaining....

By • Nov 05,2008

How to lose friends and get influenced

My colleague Amr Hamzawy has a partial post-mortem on Bush administration Middle East policy in Al-Ahram: After two Bush administrations, which sought to redraw the map of the Middle East...

By • Nov 05,2008

Prop 8 and the need to go beyond 50.1%

Andrew Sullivan says he is “not shattered” by the passage of California’s Proposition 8, the ballot measure effectively overturning the state Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of gay marriage, but...