Bloomberg, via The San Jose Mercury News, has the tidiest summary of the subprime lending fiasco I’ve read yet. It’s full of great quotes. On the ri...
Anthony Lewis, reviewing The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin: George W. Bush fit the conservative judicial campaign perfect...
A taste of the future: U.S. aircraft carrier denied access to Hong Kong Update: By the time the Chinese changed their minds, the U.S. aircraft carrier had alrea...
What’s the opposite of schadenfreude? I feel that right now for Gordon Ramsay. His show, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, is like a television Tampopo: ...
Jonathan Chait: Short-term fluctuations, often driven by events beyond the control of the party in power, are inevitable. So the way to win is not to win every ...
Matt Taibbi: The room twitters in amazement. It’s hard not to applaud the balls of a man who walks into Congress short $72 million in taxpayer money and o...
Yesterday “Some 100,000 Islamists have met in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, to press for the re-establishment of a caliphate across the Muslim world...