Month: December 2014

I hear that Time magazine chose the people who are working to stop the Ebola outbreak in Africa as their People of the Year. I assume this will offend the wingnuts who see them as the primary health threat here at home.

Departing Sen. Mark Udall took to the Senate floor this morning to tell the CIA to shut its lying face and disclosed classified information to do so. He should be immune from prosecution for this because he was speaking in...

Howard Dean took to the pages of Politico this morning to heartily endorse Hillary Clinton for president. I don’t know whether or not we should read anything into the timing of the piece, although I suspect it isn’t...

Happy Human Rights day! I hope you’ll spend some time reflecting on what human rights look like, and what they don’t look like. Also, this person gets to teach at a college. And this person wants you to remember...

How The New Republic stopped being a Jewish magazine | Haaretz | Last week, The New Republic, the magazine I used to edit, fell apart. The owner ousted the top two editors, most of the senior staff resigned, and while something...