The fall of men at the NYRB
Surely #MeToo should also be about educating men in their 60s like Ian Buruma rather than driving them out
Ta-Nehisi Coates is wrong about Trump voters
True, for many race defined this campaign but stating that bluntly won’t win them back
Police shootings database
Whatever the cause the sheer number of dead should impress us: 813 so far this year with weeks to go
Tracking the incompetent Trump cabinet
Bush’s team bungled Hurricane Katrina but they were professionals compared to Trump’s gang
Where the non-Christian Americans are
Christians abound but that does not make the US a Christian country
Sanity on immigration policy, near at last
Republicans still hate Hispanic cultural influence but they’re relenting on immigration policy
What is racist about Romney’s 47 percent claim?
The late Lee Atwater makes it clear: Romney’s 47 percent drives racists closer to rich white people
A stars-aligning moment to pass immigration reform
For the first time, Republicans need immigration reform as much as Democrats have always wanted it
What Obama lost in this campaign
Even with victory, Obama missed the chance to engineer a realignment of the US electorate
What an Omar Suleiman girl group would sound like
Mubarak’s Angel of Darkness would have yelped and wailed just like this
How the US is playing into the hands of the Salafiyeen
The US just told the Salafiyeen they have the power to affect aid talks. Big mistake
Fast and Furious ‘scandal’ is a GOP hatchet job
The gun lobby lambasts the Obama administration for not seizing enough guns. An election year irony
On the Egypt revolution and America’s War of 1812
A bad week in Egypt, but profound political change can take a very long time
What I saw at the (Occupy May Day) revolution today
The point of today’s large rally: “Memo to the 1%, this is so not over”
What did Nixon really know about Watergate?
Ron Rosenbaum points out Nixon ran the cover up but we still don’t know if he ordered the burglary
Mad Men is populated by Richard Nixon’s silent majority
When it comes to race, has Mad Men left the biggest lie until last?
What Steve Jobs saw in 1985
The most compelling reason to buy a home computer 27 years ago? The internet.
Why the global warming skeptics are skeptical
It is politics, not science. Global warming skeptics fear opening the door to government regulation
The hidden sword behind the US-Egypt NGO debacle
The NGOs were operating illegally. The Egyptian regime likes it that way
Romney has not gotten a job in a decade
It is a good thing Romney is rich because he is basically unemployable
The Atlantic opens our eyes to the American Civil War
The US Capitol building under construction and a country tearing itself apart
The Fantastic Four of the Republican race
A robot, a kook, and two flawed moralizing Catholics is really the best that the GOP can offer us?
When Memphis cared
When Martin Luther King was killed, John T. Fisher showed that not only blacks in Memphis cared