By • Jan 22,2009

Trainspotting in Mumbai

Danny Boyle is famous for setting misery to an upbeat tempo. [Trainspotting](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/), his devastating 1996 take on heroin addiction, comes across as horrifying and yet almost exhilarating, too. In it,...

By • Jan 21,2009

Getting schooled by Roland Burris

We had friends staying with us for the inauguration, all of them huge Obama supporters. One of them said to me that Burris’s confirmation as a Senator lends an unfortunate...

By • Jan 21,2009

I want one of those stimulus jobs

George Stephanopoulos tried to engage Obama strategist David Axelrod in some back-of-the-envelope math: STEPHANOPOULOS: The other substantive point that [House Minority Leader John] Boehner makes, he circulated a fact sheet,...

By • Jan 21,2009

Nancy Pelosi, deficit hawk?

Chris Wallace seemed a bit surprised by something Nancy Pelosi told him on Fox News Sunday: PELOSI: Fiscal discipline is central to what we do, and we can’t… WALLACE: You’re...

By • Jan 21,2009

Brzezinski on China

In another worthwhile piece I only just had a chance to read, Dan Drezner criticizes Zbigniew Brzezinski’s latest FT op/ed. I’m don’t agree with Drezner entirely about the primacy of...