politics

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...

politics

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...

politics

Keen observation: “I don’t know if anyone’s noticed, but George W. Bush is being disappeared from the presidential campaign and everyone’...

feelings

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: ...

politics

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 ...

politics

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...

politics

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...