Things are getting really weird. But let’s go back to something Glenn Greenwald said in late June: For now, Greenwald said he is taking extra precautions against the prospect that he is a target of U.S. surveillance. He...
Read MoreRNC chairman Reince Priebus won a lot of applause at the committee’s summer meeting when he announced that NBC and CNN were cut out of any future Republican debates, but the rest of his message fell flat: In contrast,...
Read MoreI’m glad that Kevin Drum is pushing the lead-reduction explanation for the drop in juvenile violent crime. He’s right; the statistics suggest that the best crime reduction policy we could pursue is an aggressive...
Read MoreI read Dan Barry’s piece on Nick Beef in which he asserted that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, and the sentence definitely stopped me short and stuck in my craw. I didn’t write in to complain because I have better...
Read MoreWhat do Julian Assange, Ron and Rand Paul, and Matt Drudge have in common? Does it matter? What does it mean? Discuss.
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