Ezra: Let’s agree that what matters isn’t how many jobs you “get caught trying” to create, but how many jobs you actually create. There’s virtually no evidence that if Obama makes more speeches on jobs, his poll numbers will go up or the labor market will...
My column this week is on the technological implications of the Obama administration's excuse for avoiding the WPR: In the future, however, presidents may resort to airpower in order to.
First, she confused her John Waynes, and now her John Adamses. Shorter Michele Bachmann: I don't care if John Quincy Adams was only nine, he was a founding father.
USA 2-0 North Korea. I watched the first half on line, then the ESPN page crapped out on me. The US did not look great in the first half, but according to what I've read, they settled down in the second and took control of the...
Off to Barcelona for a week. Blogging could be reasonably light, though I have some prepared posts to drop on you (including several Most Prominent Politicians posts). If anyone has.
Over the past two weeks I have driven thousands of miles, attended two bachelor's parties, witnessed two weddings, and gained six pounds. I've been only periodically in touch with the.
. . . a bit too far. In high school, Tim Tebow was the #1 ranked quarterback prospect in the nation.
Jeff Rosen makes some good points in his piece about the divisions within the Supreme Court's conservative bloc. But I think he misses an important one: the way in which.
Adam Kader has a nice article on the I.W.W. organizing of Starbucks. That might sound weird. The I.W.W? Didn't it disappear 80 years ago? Well, more or less. It's always.
As Malaclypse notes, the great Patrick Neilsen Hayden has a perfect response to the idea that opposing marriage discrimination has become a bipatrisan cause: Cranky moment. Over on Twitter, our Abi retweets a tweet by the generally excellent George Takei. In case Twitter is failwhaling, I'll...
One of the worst laws of the late 19th century was the 1887 Dawes Act. Allowing the government to gut the Indian reservations by providing small allotments to individual Native.
I have some reflections on the belated passage of same-sex marriage legislation in New York. The two most important are that 1)the belief that achieving policy victories through legislation will.