Joe Walsh Screams at Tammy Duckworth: Video Mashup Joe Walsh Screams at Tammy Duckworth: Video Mashup
Why does Tammy Duckworth make Joe Walsh so angry?
Jul 11, 2012 / Katie Halper
‘Illegal? Who Says They’re Illegal?’ Says Israeli Commission on West Bank Outposts ‘Illegal? Who Says They’re Illegal?’ Says Israeli Commission on West Bank Outposts
UN, NPR slam demolitions of Palestinian homes. Those, Israel says, are illegal.
Jul 11, 2012 / Bob Dreyfuss
Romney’s Donors Share His Love of Offshore Tax Havens Romney’s Donors Share His Love of Offshore Tax Havens
Of Mitt’s top donors, ten are heavily invested in the practice of hiding vast sums of money offshore.
Jul 11, 2012 / George Zornick
The Great Disparity The Great Disparity
Timothy Noah and Charles Murray offer starkly different explanations of growing economic and social inequality in the United States.
Jul 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / William Julius Wilson
Flow Dynamics Flow Dynamics
So lightly and invisibly I hardly knew it, river of blood descending without joy back to the heart through the frail vein all that time —the largest of the body— shredded then dissolved (“obliterated”) and there was a sudden seepage into the surrounding tissue instead of the blood pouring out as you’d expect forever before a new vein formed to bypass what was gone like a wide meander even the smallest flood ends, and the river goes straight from that point. But in my case the thin-walled base-ends held forming an anabranch, a section that diverts from the main channel, rejoins it downstream. Local ones can come from, make small islands in the watercourse or flow hundreds of miles like the Bahr el Zeref in the south Sudan that splits from the Bahr al Jabal of the White Nile, doesn’t return until Malakal instead of leaving behind, as it could have with the blood being old, a full-fledged oxbow lake, a little blue scar beside the heart.
Jul 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Arnold
Freedom Deferred: On Stephen Kantrowitz Freedom Deferred: On Stephen Kantrowitz
How social equality was used to discredit the egalitarian project of Reconstruction.
Jul 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
The Good European: On Jürgen Habermas The Good European: On Jürgen Habermas
German “ordoliberalism” and Eurocrats have the EU on the brink, but Germany’s most famous philosopher remains optimistic about European democracy.
Jul 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Anson Rabinbach
Of Time and Intensity Of Time and Intensity
Is Time a dispersion of intensity? For epiphanists, maybe, but not for me— for whom Time is a transposition of immensity into a lower key.
Jul 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole
Mitt Romney’s NAACP Speech: Will He Condemn Voter Suppression? Mitt Romney’s NAACP Speech: Will He Condemn Voter Suppression?
The question that Romney must answer Wednesday is simple: Which side is he on?
Jul 10, 2012 / John Nichols