Won't somebody think about the plutocrats? There are millionaires, there are billionaires, and then there are the people who earn over a billion dollars in a single year. For the first time ever, the financial research firm GMI Ratings has found two CEOs making over $1...
There's no reason to think that the United States is more drought-immune than ancient societies that were destroyed by it: More than 3,200 years ago, life was abuzz in and.
A couple of you have asked me to talk more about my art. As you wish. Mostly what I do is photomanipulation. What is photomanipulation? It's when you take elements.
Just as the Roberts Court gave a clinic on how not to properly interpret the civil war amendments, Potter Stewart knew amendments that were designed to actually empower the federal government to protect rights when he saw them. Noting that the 13th Amendment was not intended...
Elliott Smith. Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of his death, and to mark the occasion, SPIN released an article originally published in December 2004 marking the last few years of.
I received some understandable pushback for asserting that as far as his political punditry goes the late Christopher Hitchens was "a highbrow Maureen Dowd or Mark Halperin." Thanks to some.
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As a casual soccer fan, I'm intrigued by the remarkable fact that Iceland is one of eight European teams fighting for the last four of the 13 spots allotted to European teams in the 32-team World Cup Final, to be played next summer in Brazil. It...
John Andreas Olsen's A History of Air Warfare is the companion volume to his Global Air Power, and is by far the stronger of the two volumes. The collection includes chapters.
JenBob explained: On the blogs, the fight was particularly fierce. Fox PR staffers were expected to counter not just negative and even neutral blog postings but the anti-Fox comments beneath.
When an article starts out like this, we can safely say that its chances of making a decent argument are non-existent: If you want to know how unhinged PC has become, look no further than the controversy over sports teams with offensive names. Not only is...
Responding to the discussion of experiencing sexual harassment by Hannah Waters and Monica Byrne, Laura Helmuth makes a couple good points: Before this week, the word I often heard people.
Bernstein: Nixon, in the newspapers that morning, argued that the crisis in the Middle East meant that Watergate had to be put aside; Henry Kissinger, that morning, flew to Moscow.