markets

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...

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...