Mike Allen reports at Politico.com (7/31/11 at 1238) on the shape of the Republican triumph on social policy. The only positive for the Democrats is that the nation does not…
Update: 2011/0724 16:30 Kevin Cullen’s Boston Globe column today is a must read. ‘A Lingering Question for the FBI’s Director’ asks Robert Mueller, who’s up for another two-year extension, what…
In ‘The Social Network’, the Winklevoss twins appeal to then Harvard President Larry Summers to force Mark Zuckerberg to honor his commitments to them. The scene is hysterically funny: …
Thanks to my brothers, George and Tom, and the singer-songwriter Greg Brown, late in middle age I’ve come to admire William Blake. ‘Admire’ is far too weak a verb. …
If you’re looking to keep cool and be very entertained, go see Errol Morris’s ‘Tabloid’. Here are the spot-on first lines of Dana Stevens’s review on Slate: Errol…
For many years before my son moved to the Twin Cities, I subscribed to the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s daily news feed. Besides good reporting – the Strib is one…
I’ve not seen US coverage of Hugh Grant’s whistle blowing on the News of the World hacking. This clip from the BBC came via the invaluable Naked Capitalism…