Month: August 2014

The guy who piloted the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima sixty-nine years ago today, didn’t lose any sleep over it. In fact, President Truman instructed him not to lose any sleep over it....

In the wake of the Boston Tea Party—as Nathaniel Philbrick makes vividly clear throughout the opening pages of Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution—the British government had to take action. The Tea Party was...

Perhaps melting the Siberian permafrost wasn’t such a great idea.

Steve Baldwin, who appears to be insane, has brainstormed a way for the far right to create a third party to supplant the Republican Party without helping Democrats win elections in the interim. His idea is that the party would...

I think the scientific literature is consistent in finding that conservatives are less comfortable with nuance than liberals and that they prefer to think in more black and white, right and wrong, terms. So, it’s kind of...