Human rights activist and scholar Samantha Power , who was banished from the Obama campaign after calling Hillary Clinton "a monster" durin…
Read more... that things have turned out the way they did this year. This blogger has been busy with paying jobs and family visits the past week, but hope to …
Read moreI've just witnessed one of the most atrocious journalistic performances in recent memory. In a breaking news segment about the Bush administrati…
Read moreA walk down memory lane. With thanks to Talking Points Memo.
Read moreReuters is reporting that the Vatican has forgiven Lennon for saying that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" back in 1966. This is…
Read moreAs many of you may have heard, Federal District Court Judge Richard J. Leon has ordered the release of five Algerian detainees held for the past seve…
Read moreA couple of days ago, Terry Gross interviewed Bill Ayers on NPR's "Fresh Air." Ayers had decided to remain silent while the McCain camp…
Read moreOnce again this blogger feels compelled to place fingertips on keyboard and issue an electronic yawn over all the buzz about Obama's appointment…
Read moreJust because she is so great, because this is an incredibly beautiful song, and because without music life is not worth living.
Read moreToday on Science 's online news service, Science NOW, I report on a very cool paper that claims very early genetic evidence for the nuclear fami…
Read moreToday's New York Times features a front-page article about Gramm entitled " A Deregulator Looks Back, Unswayed ," by Eric Lipton and …
Read moreI am very late catching up with some back issues of the New Yorker , but today I was reading a pre-election Reporter at Large piece by George Packer …
Read moreThat's the title of a fascinating, four-page story in the current Science by my partner on the journal's anthropology beat, Ann Gibbons. The…
Read moreSigh, yawn... oh gosh, some people don't realize how much pressure there is on us bloggers . We have to have a passionate, edgy opinion on absolu…
Read moreGeneral Motors is begging for a bailout , and Barack Obama and his transition team are asking the Bush administration and Congress to supply it. Tom …
Read moreThis blog, not to mention the entire world, has been so fixated on politics lately that we have forgotten some of the most important things in life--…
Read moreI can't believe how much the television media are talking about this. Great idea! Who better to energize that incredible shrinking Republican bas…
Read moreI'm shocked--shocked!--to find out that Barack Obama is not a radical leftist. Why didn't someone tell me this before I voted for him? I feel…
Read moreHe's a Muslim, possibly an Arab. He wasn't really born in America. He pals around with terrorists. He's a socialist who wants to spread t…
Read moreBecause it's already over. I'll be back soon, on the other side of history. Update (11:48 PM) : Wow. Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, C…
Read moreToday on Science 's online news service, ScienceNOW , I report on a spectacular archaeological find in Israel. A team led by Leore Grosman of …
Read moreIt's incredibly sad that Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham , has not lived to see her grandson elected president of the United Stat…
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