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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:07:00 GMT

What Warren Buffett's Investment Says About the Global Economy

The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors are meeting today in St. Andrews, talking about the data they will need to look at in order to monitor each other’s economic performance and sustain growth (seriously). The underlying idea is that if
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:07:00 GMT

Phony Conservative Anti-Elitism, Revealed!

From a new cover story on Sarah Palin by Weekly Standard hack Matthew Continetti,: Last week, when Joe Biden traveled to upstate New York to campaign for Democratic congressional candidate Bill Owens, the vice president took aim at Sarah Palin. 'The fact
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:08:00 GMT

Weekend Sports Lineup

If the House health care vote happens this weekend, perhaps you will want to flip back and forth between the football games.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:54:00 GMT

Today At TNR (November 7, 2009)

Unemployment Has Crept Over Ten Percent, and I Think That’s a Good Thing. What? by Noam Scheiber Did Rembrandt Reveal a Murder in One of His Paintings? An Intriguing Whodunnit Film. PLUS: 'The Maid.' by Stanley Kauffman The UN Report on Gaza Is Biased,
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:24:00 GMT

Shields, Brooks Examine GOP's 'Morale Boost'

JUDY WOODRUFF: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Gentlemen, good to see you both. Let's start with the bad news, Mark, unemployment 10.2 percent. What are the
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:51:00 GMT

Dems find hope amid GOP chaos

Democrats took it on the chin in this year's off-off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. Since those are two states that President Barack Obama won last year, vulnerable Democratic lawmakers in next year's elections are feeling as
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:06:00 GMT

Our dangerous Cold War nostalgia

Communism's collapse left a void that has not been filled Steve Chapman Communism was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century, and one of the greatest in human history. Twenty years ago, suddenly and improbably, it fell into its death throes. The
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 03:03:00 GMT

George F. Will on the changing climate for a global warming treaty

Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent. Britain's intelligent prime minister, Gordon Brown,
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:32:00 GMT

Coming in on a wing and a thank-you

Bob Dole, who was badly wounded in Italy during that war, had just been recognized with a plaque for spurring creation of the memorial, and Elizabeth Dole said that 'Bob and I are down here almost every Saturday,' greeting one of the Honor Flights that
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:31:00 GMT

Uncovering Syria's Secret Nuclear Site

In case you haven't gotten your issue of Der Spiegel this month, the German mag has some very cool details on the intelligence work that led to the discovery--and eventual destruction by Israeli airstrike--of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor being
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:06:00 GMT

asks why

Given the orgy of gloating on the right and the hand-wringing on the left that followed this week's elections, it would not seem unreasonable to conclude that next year's midterm elections have already been decided via Tuesday's results. The parties --
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:31:00 GMT

Weekend Reading, November 6-8

--Jill Lepore on murders and American history --Mark Bowden on the line between internet dirty-talk and internet sexual predation --Jenny Diski on Roman Polanski and rape --If all this is too grim, check out James Poniewozik's short essay on the media's
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:23:00 GMT

A Killing in Connecticut

At Doublethink, Sonny Bunch cites the horrifying murders committed by Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky in Cheshire, CT in 2007, and concludes: As far as I am concerned, those two have made their lives forfeit. I want the state to take vengeance upon
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:11:00 GMT

"V" and the Tea Parties

Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks 'V' speaks to the worldview of the Tea Party fruitcakes. Apparently the fruitcakes agree (see the accompanying photo, sent by a reader.)
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:13:00 GMT

What Will It Take to Make Women's Soccer a Mass Spectator Sport?

A little while ago, I spent some time thinking about that question and came up with a tentative answer: women's soccer needs more jerks playing it. I'd say the fact that ESPN Sports Center featured these highlights from the semifinals of a mid-major
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:35:00 GMT

Arianna Huffington: Latest Game Changers: Technology and Wellness

Time for the final round of HuffPost Game Changers -- the innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world. So far we've announced our picks in Entertainment, Green, Politics,
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:02:00 GMT

From the Archives: The Strange Genius of Oprah

Earlier this week, the entertainment industry blog Deadline Hollywood reported that Oprah Winfrey will be moving her talk-show to her own cable network when her contract with CBS expires in 2011. Her production company responded that she has not yet made
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:08:00 GMT

Jim Jones vs. Dennis Ross on Linkage

Ben Smith notes that national security advisor Jim Jones, speaking at the J Street conference last week, called the Middle East conflict 'the epicenter' of U.S. foreign policy problems around the world. It's worth noting that one of Obama's senior
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:04:00 GMT

Does Ft. Hood Have a Meaning?

One consequence of having been alive through a lot of modern American history is remembering a lot of mass shootings. I was working at a high school summer job when news came over the radio that Charles Whitman had gunned down more than 40 people,
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:04:00 GMT

Yaakov Teitel and the Allure of Lawlessness

A Palestinian woman gestures as an Israeli border police officer stands above her, during clashes between Palestinians and Jewish settlers during the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Karut. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh) The glossy flier was posted
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:32:00 GMT

Andy Borowitz: Wall Street Cheers as Employment Hits 90%

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Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:02:00 GMT

Zombie Orszagism Returns to Kill Health Care Reform For Good?

The Obama Administration will find a way to blow health care reform yet. Mere Rhetoric notes a report that Obama aides plan to address Tuesday's election defeats by resurrecting Orszagism, the doctrine that health care reform is the way to control the
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:54:00 GMT

The Goldstone Illusion

I. In 2000, I was asked by the Israel Defense Forces to join a group of philosophers, lawyers, and generals for the purpose of drafting the army’s ethics code. Since then, I have been deeply involved in the analysis of the moral issues that Israel
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:13:00 GMT

What Independents Want

Independents can’t always articulate what they want, but they withdraw from any party that threatens turmoil and risk.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:45:00 GMT

The Weekly Standard, Where It's Always Good News For Republicans

This sort of argument is actually the signature style of the Standard. A magazine like National Review specializes in making the case for conservative ideas. The Standard's contribution is to assert over and over that Republicans are succeeding, or at
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 05:06:00 GMT

The Christian Right Meets Tea-Party Might

“We are turning to socialism and away from God!” Joseph Grab said as he stood amid the thousands who gathered on Capitol Hill today to attend Michele Bachmann’s “House Call” protest against the health care reform bill. Grab, a retired engineer
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 05:06:00 GMT

A Soldier And His Little Girl

I think this is, or will quickly become, a highly viral video. I defy you to watch it without tearing up: More Articles On: Popular 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:26:00 GMT

Where Are You, California Republicans?

Just in case the California Legislature's passage of a landmark water bill earlier this week had convinced you that John Judis is wrong and that things are finally looking up for the Golden State, William Voegeli's essay in the current issue of City
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:07:00 GMT

The myth of '08, demolished

In the aftermath of last year's Obama sweep, we heard endlessly about its fundamental, revolutionary, transformational nature. How it was ushering in an FDR-like realignment for the 21st century in which new demographics -- most prominently, rising
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:37:00 GMT

Why Are the Health Care Polls Going South?

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Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:15:00 GMT