Chinese colonialism in Burma? Daniel Pepper on the anniversary of the revolt: Democracy advocates in exile hold out hope that China, which is Myanmar’s largest trading partner and its ally...
Matt Yglesias thinks that commuters don’t pay enough. After comparing highway travel to free ice cream day at Ben and Jerry’s, he writes: Put in a road somewhere and unless...
Alexander Waugh, grandson to the author, has a piece up talking about the sex scene in the various adaptations of Brideshead Revisited, including a few choice quotes about what his...
John McCain is on the ropes. He needs another “game changer” to win the election—something as bold and unexpected as the Sarah Palin pick. Here it is.
Over the weekend, I attended a traditional south Indian wedding. It was quite a lovely ceremony, though undercut somewhat by it’s non-traditional location in Jacksonville — of which there might...
Campbell Brown at CNN thinks the candidates need to be more forthcoming about how they’d pare back federal spending, now that we’ve plunked down $850 billion on the bailout. “Cut...
