That's the only way to characterize the position taken by Clinton's advocates, most notably Harold Ickes, at the DNC rules committee today. T…
Read moreThe May 31 issue of the French daily newspaper Le Monde (still one of the world's great newspapers despite years of internal upheavals and cutbac…
Read moreIn this week's online edition of Science , a team of researchers from Greenland, Denmark, and other European laboratories report on the first (ne…
Read moreOkay, in the news today is McCain's challenge to Obama to visit Iraq because he is "ignorant of the facts on the ground" in the war zon…
Read moreBetter bloggers than Balter long ago pointed out the desperate hypocrisy of Clinton's insistence that the Florida and Michigan delegations be sea…
Read moreToday's International Herald Tribune features a story by reporter Sarah Lyall about the British government's release of UFO sighting reports…
Read moreCheck out Ravi Coltrane's MySpace page , where among other cuts you can listen to "Dear Alice," Ravi's haunting tribute to his late…
Read moreI think it's a good sign if Hillary Clinton subliminally realizes that the only way she is going to get the nomination is if Barack Obama is assa…
Read moreThis blog has been hitting the politics pretty heavily lately, which seems justifiable given that the future of humanity is at stake in the decisions…
Read moreYou will note that Slate's Hillary Clinton Deathwatch has been reinstated in this blog's sidebar, because, um, she is not yet dead! I will pr…
Read moreThe New York Times reports that an American airstrike in Iraq killed 8 civilians including two children. I am going to reprint the entire article be…
Read moreI learned today from the ubiquitous and all-knowing Glenn Greenwald that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has started a blog , with heavy e…
Read moreThe photo at the left is one of the most famous that came out of the Abu Ghraib scandal: A smiling Sabrina Harman next to the corpse of Manadel al-J…
Read moreToday's International Herald Tribune carries a report on a meeting in Dublin yesterday where diplomats from more than 100 countries discussed an…
Read moreHillary Clinton was very proud of her big primary win in West Virginia, especially her very high support among what she called "hard working Ame…
Read moreSunday in Paris would not be complete without a walk along the Seine River and a " manif" (ie manifestation , French for a demonstration.) …
Read moreWell, I just returned to Paris from Boston, kicked up my feet on my Eames ottoman and turned on CNN International just in time to catch the tail end …
Read moreI will be 30,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean between Boston and Paris this evening, so in the meantime please enjoy some of saxophonist Joshua Redma…
Read moreAs we all know, Clinton trounced Obama in West Virginia last night. Sadly, as Patrick Healy put it in the New York Times today, "racial consid…
Read moreThis morning's Los Angeles Times features an article from West Virginia by staff writer Faye Fiore, entitled "In West Virginia, women for H…
Read moreI've been teaching journalism at Boston University this past semester, which has been a terrific experience, not least because I have had a great…
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