Category: people

About those five men just freed from our unconstitutional and immoral prison camp in Cuba after seven years without a trial. And the man who freed them: Judge L...

From Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million: The same would be technically possible with Neanderthals, whose full genome is expected to be recovered shortly, bu...

Everything that is wrong with our press and NPR in particular is on stark display in this exchange between NPR’s Steve Inskeep and Rep. Barney Frank.

Former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead on why it’s (now) time for sacrifice and leadership: “Before I go to sleep at night, I wonder if tomorr...

David Bromwich has written a monumental and damning profile of Dick Cheney. It begins with this: The vice-presidential search in the spring of 2000 was characte...

at certain altitudes the turbulence is milder: “At the right level, the market exists,” said Tobias Meyer, the head of Sotheby’s contemporary art department wor...

Bruce Schneier quoting an account of a British psychological operations campaign in WW2: On March 30, 1945, “Aspidistra” intruded into the Berlin an...

Meanwhile: Instead, the schools that make up the upper crust of the public education universe belie the system they are part of and the city where they reside, ...

On shamelessness as a political weapon: This is why I say that they have retired the concept of hypocrisy. It goes far beyond double standards or duplicity or b...

Josh Marshall: I’m under no illusion that negative or even nasty campaigning will come to an end in the USA. I don’t think that’s realistic or...

CNN: The U.S. dollar continued to advance Thursday as fears of a global economic recession drained the market of its appetite for risky trades involving the eur...

A two-prong attack: Stripped down to its components McCain’s message to voters is this: “Don’t forget. He’s definitely black. And he may...

Sam Harris via Ben and Alice “Governor Palin, are you ready at this moment to perform surgery on this child’s brain?” “Of course, Charli...

Imagine if you borrowed money from a hundred investors to bet big on a horse race. And then, as the race was underway, and your horse was trailing by a head, yo...

Upon first hearing there was some bailout plan coming out of the White House, I jokingly asked if we were going to use our armed forces to prevent creditors fro...

this is what happens when the world’s most powerful country elects willful idiots into office, again and again, drunk on its own wealth and power: World l...