Small Precautions

A comment from Noah got me thinking about those abysmal Congressional approval ratings. Dems generally ignore that data, while the GOP hack...

Many a successful book and career has been made out of finding a way to make a clever generalization about some regular curve: Moore's L...

Tim Rutten provides yet more data on the way in which America in the Age of Reagan (1981-) has involved the enrichment of already-wealthy, a...

That famous quote is often misattributed to Yogi Berra, but in fact comes from the French poet Paul Valery, who was describing the sentiment...

As in: "landslide." Clive Crooks details a simple equation for predicting the outcome of U.S. Presidential races. The bottom line...

A great rant on the current financial imbroglio. Money: There is a choice to be made: Either we regulate the Banks, or leave it to the vaga...

I've been thinking that we ought to commemorate the leading lights of the Bush regime with nacknames based on their best-known phrases. ...

Four months ago I expressed surprise that the bailout of Wall Street bankers was not getting the attention it deserved, and described the Be...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, left, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at a House hearing on the ongoing financial crisis :

Gallows humor does seem to be the mood of the season....

Some people think Obama's a radical in disguise. I have my hopes, but I also have my doubts. I doubt he's going to pull us out of Ir...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event , perhaps the most kinetically cataclysmic event initiated from outer space in recent t...

There's an active debate going on between Andrew Sullivan and Josh Marshall on one side, and Max Boot, on the other, about whether the ...

Robert Novak quotes a disgruntled GOP operative : The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling a...

I'm reading a fascinating book right now, Reinventing Collapse, by Dmitry Orlov , which argues that the United States is on the verge of...

The National Intelligence Council delivers a classified 58 page assessment to Congress on the "National Security Implications of Global...

The latest polling data suggests that Obama's victory over McCain will be smaller than his party's overall victory against the GOP....

Esquire asks, "Is John Yoo a Monster?" I don't think there's any doubt that the answer, basically, is yes. All of the hedg...

Mike Huckabee makes some intriguing observations about what could be the most important electoral story of the Fall: What do you think is g...

Interesting map of country-by-country gas price differences .