Cold War nostalgia is hot these days. Everyone who’s anyone is watching The Americans, FX’s taut drama about Soviet sleeper cell spies living in the the suburbs of Washington, D.C., during the 1980s, making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for their kids by day and carrying out hits by night. Vladimir Putin got geopolitcally retro […]
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Paul Ryan’s Budget: Take From The Poor, Sick, and Elderly
What the Congressman’s plan lacks in a tax proposal, he makes up for with very real spending cuts.
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The CIA and the Moral Sunk Costs of the Torture Program
Once they sold their souls, they had to justify the sale, even if it meant misleading everyone about what torture was achieving.
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Soldiering on an Empty Stomach
The number of military families seeking food assistance has risen; even more need the help but are afraid to ask. Something’s wrong.
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Daily Meme: Obamacare’s Computer Problems
By today’s Obamacare deadline, 7 million Americans will have signed up for health-care insurance through one of the Obama administration’s online exchanges-despite continuing technical difficulties that have plagued HealthCare.gov since its launch. Shortly after midnight last night, site operators discovered a bug in the system that required them to take the site offline. Things were […]
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Jeb Fever Sweeps GOP; Symptoms Likely to Be Mild, Temporary
The GOP establishment is looking for a savior. But does Jeb Bush have fire in his belly?
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A Nasty Piece of Cornbread: Chait, Coates, and White Progressivism
This post originally appeared on the personal website of Tressie McMillan Cottom. I once set out to write a book of southern aphorisms. It was going to be a serious treatment of (mostly) black (uniquely) southern “mother wit” as philosophy. Then, grad school and so on and so on. If I were to undertake a […]
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Sunday Show Becomes 10 Percent Less Awful
A tiny bit of progress on Meet the Press.
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Why “Noah” Shouldn’t Get a Happy Ending
The trouble with Darren Aronofsky’s blockbuster isn’t that it’s offensive to Christians; it’s that it’s too Christianized.
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Federal Court Upholds Texas’s War On Roe v. Wade
The restrictive abortion law that rocketed Wendy Davis to fame is making its way through the courts—and it could be upheld at the highest one.