Today in the Things We Need Like a Hole in the Head department: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is looking into allegations the CIA station chief in Algeria raped...
Elana Schor at the newly relaunched TPMDC writes about an LA Times article criticizing Obama’s pick of Cass Sunstein to head up OIRA. In her summary, she makes one truly...
(Here is a sneak peek at an op-ed I submitted. I’ll post an update if it makes it into print.) One day before Barack Obama’s inauguration, a masked gunman shot...
Since I’m on a Will Wilkinson kick, here’s a post of his (via Andrew) that I’m more dyspeptic about. A taste of what bugs me: Indeed, over the past half-century,...
No, you’re right, I am hopelessly cynical and contrarian. So much so that not only did I not take a few hours off of work to go hang out on...
Polansky’s latest and Martin Luther King Day have me thinking about diversity today, and about the ongoing failure to recognize the distinction between equality of opportunity and equality of result....
