Netanyahu ends U.S. visit with no resolution; areas of disagreement remain. Op: Knowing Netanyahu would be reenergized by his speech at AIPAC, Obama and his staff set him a honey trap. Tea Partiers use centuries-old nullification tactics to challenge health care reform. Liberals mock Bush's hand-
Dan Simmons (The Terror) is not only a prolific writer, but his books transverse a multiplicity of genres. His previous opus, The Drood, featured a Charles Dickens charged with defending the reputation of the lost (Arctic) Franklin Expedition from persistent accusations of cannibalism (a story also well handled by Richard
An invokation of Super Mario Brothers, Buddhists, and the customers at your local Starbucks.
Behind what some readers might consider an audacious, tongue-in-chic title lies a fairly simple thesis about racial taxonomy and historical invention. Historian Nell Irvin Painter’s (Southern History Across the Color Line) new book The History Of White People (WW Norton) argues that “race” is a human contrivance,
Republicans plan vote-a-rama to embarrass Democrats with a richness of amendments to reject. Remembrance of Iran's Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, now martyr "for those who would seek reform." Op: Health care reform will create "a world that partisans of limited government should welcome.
Netanyahu gets informal treatment during White House visit; Britain expels Israeli diplomat over passports mess. Education chief kept confidential log of Chicago pols seeking spots in top schools. Video: Biden calls reform "a big fucking deal." See also: Brief history of D.C.'s bad language. Nestle
If you are attuned to such things, you might note that occasionally the Academy Awards honor one of the motion-picture industry’s faceless, behind-the-scenes people known as producers with an accolade named after Irving Thalberg. Thalberg is something of a Hollywood legend as he was successful at
After 60 years of effort, the Wiesenthal Center's sixth-most-wanted Nazi is convicted. More than 160 arrested in connection with the Jos massacre in Nigeria. Economic double standard found in banning ivory but not tuna. India to weaponize the bhut jolokia, the world's hottest chili.
Two (excellent) reasons to read Francis Wheen’s at times hilarious, other times scary Strange Days Indeed: The 1970’s: The Golden Age of Paranoia (Public Affairs) are Wheen’s mordant humor and high intelligence, and that he is dead on in his assessment of that historical sinkhole known as
Russia hammers the competition in the Winter Paralympics after its worst-ever Winter Olympics. High-fructose corn syrup found to cause obesity; Americans consume 60 pounds of it each year. Newspapers as drugs: in a pure state, full of facts; when cut with Lady Gaga photos, dangerous. Useful Q&
