Commentary - America's Future

By Nicole Kurokawa Neily • Dec 09,2008

Your Daily Dose of the Illinois Constitution

What specifically will take place in Illinois in the next week or two? Let’s look at the state constitution, boys and girls. Well, for starters, the state legislature is out...

By Nicole Kurokawa Neily • Dec 09,2008

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich indicted

(Sorry for the delayed absence, I have been writing a research paper on Cook County.) Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Breaking news around the interwebs: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich...

By David Donadio • Dec 09,2008

Retired Indian admiral says Mumbai attackers had Pakistani military training

At a Carnegie event this morning (link to be posted when available), retired Indian vice admiral Premvir Das of the Indian navy made the clearest case yet for Pakistani involvement...

By Daniel Kennelly • Dec 09,2008

The cardinal sin of a pop-culture commentator

I’ve said elsewhere that “the cardinal sin of the cultural commentator is to take one’s private loves and preferences and try to read some sort of deeper cultural significance into...

By David Donadio • Dec 09,2008

Why didn’t Blagojevich crash and burn earlier?

Michael Calderone writes that among other things, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich tried to pressure the Chicago Tribune to fire deputy editorial page editor John P. McCormick. Of course, the market...

By David Donadio • Dec 08,2008

Most expensive Tweeter in the solar system

NASA’s Mars lander, twittering up a storm.