Month: December 2013

Nominating Max Baucus to be the next Ambassador to China is a brilliant move on several levels, although not all of them will he happy for progressives. Baucus has already announced that he will not seek reelection, so taking...

I was in meetings and then my car all day as I drove home from Pittsburgh, so I don’t know what the hell happened today. The first thing I did after getting home and reading my email was to look to see what the Senate did...

Not so sure about the next 30 years, but how about we spend this afternoon posting interesting news tidbits in the comments below?

. Yesterday’s headline – High-profile figures among 84 detained in major corruption operation in Turkey. (Hürriyet) – A corruption operation targeting the relatives of ministers, well-known businesspeople,...

David Brooks explains how to make it in journalism: Well, you start out being a coddled little genius nurtured by the think tanks and vanity publications and fanzines of the American right. Then you make a career out of whatever...