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“She’s a strong social conservative and deeply knowledgeable...”
— The inimitable Michael Bérubé,...

Oct 2nd

“To the McCain camp, Palin isn’t important as a...”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates,...

Oct 1st

“A federal judge in Honolulu has dismissed a lawsuit trying...”
— Great sentences in the Times.

Sep 30th

Chris Rock on Obama

Sep 30th

Sign Your Life Sucks: You Flee Pakistan for...

Sep 29th

“Democrats sought to seize advantage after the failed...”
— Politics Take Hold of Bailout...

Sep 27th

“ur, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in...”
— The wanna-be next...

Sep 26th

Somebody buy me these, eh?

Sep 25th

“The candidate who wants to quash any suspicion that he is...”
— James Fallows on...

Sep 25th

“If you excelled academically and are able to casually use...”
— Maureen Dowd nails it in her...

Sep 24th

“Obama only has two “must-win” states while McCain has half a...”
— Nate Silver on Polls and the...

Sep 23rd

A Mood for Socializing

A friend asks in an email, “If we socialize the banks, can we socialize medicine?” ...

Sep 23rd

Putin's History

Sep 22nd

Another Airport-Code System

Sep 22nd

“We have not seen this much stress in the financial system...”
— Diamond and Kashyap on the...

Sep 21st

“Just like that, Mr. Bernanke, the reserved former Ivy League...”
— A Professor and a Banker Bury...

Sep 21st

“Bogotá is as close to Miami as Phoenix is to San Francisco.”
— Parag Khanna, “Embrace...

Sep 20th

“The future is certain. Only the past is difficult to...”
— The History We Need—By Scott...

Sep 19th

“Americans refuse to acknowledge that we have an economy that...”
— Six Questions for Chris Whalen...

Sep 18th

“Under the McCain [health care] plan (now the McCain-Palin...”
— Bob Herbert on “McCain’s...

Sep 18th

Brushing Your Teeth with Google

Google’s plans for offshore data centers.

Sep 18th

“We’re deflating the economy, like we deflated it during the...”
— How bad is the economy? Don’t...

Sep 17th

Christopher Columbus, the Man Who Couldn't...

Sep 16th

“This is the world of “premiumization,” a buzzword among...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - Premiumize...

Sep 16th

Matt Damon on Sarah Palin

Sep 15th

“She’s Jerry Falwell with a pretty face.”
— Salon.com News | The pastor...

Sep 15th

“Karl Rove said both candidates are guilty of going too far...”
— Rove: McCain went ‘too...

Sep 15th

“Perhaps in our society the true madness in the search for...”
— David Halberstam, The...

Sep 14th

Sign of the Apocalypse II

McCain got the roughest treatment from the press so far this campaign today when he was on The View....

Sep 13th

Sign of the Apocalypse I

That a relatively meaningless, early-season college football game gets hyped by EPSN as the...

Sep 13th

“He’s been collecting seconds here and there like a little...”
— Pro-cycling smack-talk, this...

Sep 12th

What Cindy McCain Wears

At the Republican National Convention: Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000 Chanel J12 White Ceramic...

Sep 12th

“When Beale was arrested in November at a strip mall in...”
— The strange world of Minnesota...

Sep 12th

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the...

Sep 11th

"Lance Armstrong Rides Again"

Sep 10th

“Lance Armstrong confirmed … that he will return to...”
— “Lance Armstrong returns...

Sep 10th

Barack's Giving Me a Raise

Sep 8th

"McCain and the Republican delegates applied...

Sep 8th

Alaska: Really Freaking Big

Sep 7th

China-man

John McCain: “If you want real reform and you want real change, send a team mavericks who aren’t...

Sep 6th

“the first Android phone, built by Taiwanese handset maker...”
— “Do AndroidGuys Dream of...

Sep 5th

Mayor Palin: A Rough Record

Sep 5th

Joe Lieberman: For Obama Before He Was...

Sep 3rd

“Aides to Mr. McCain said they had a team on the ground in...”
— From the Times, more proof...

Sep 2nd

“… If history is a guide, an Obama victory in November...”
— Alan Blinder on the...

Sep 1st

McCain's Cruel Joke about Chelsea Clinton

Sep 1st

“The main reason McCain knuckled under to the religious right...”
— Frank Rich, slaughtering more...

Sep 1st