I just started reading David Grann's New Yorker piece, which everyone is talking about. I was delaying because I'm an old fogey, who actually enjoys holding print products, like books and magazines. I'm not even that far in and I'm ho...

Paul Krugman unloads: On the issue of health care itself, the inspiring figure progressives thought they had elected comes across, far too often, as a dry technocrat who talks of "bending the curve" but has only recently begun to make the ...

I should have something to say about this. I have no idea why I don't. I guess it's good. Maybe I need to think on it more. 

I don't know if it helps. The idea that "Zionists" are keeping Obama from talking to Wright strikes me as, well, false. I'm willing to bet Valarie Jarrett doesn't want them talking either. I'm willing to bet more that Michel...

My former colleague Tim Padgett has an unfortunate and deeply problematic article on Sotamayor's effect on the relationship between blacks and Latinos, a subject that major media has never gotten a solid handle on, for reasons that are made clear...