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The Deep State, the Permanent Campaign, and the Frayed Fabric of American...
Obviously I consider yesterday's Senate developments to be (modestly) good news. The McConnell-era Republican minority had finally over-reached in subjecting Barack Obama to a burden no other president...
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For Your China Reading List: 'Wealth and Power'
You could have a long debate on whether we're in anything like a Golden Age for China itself. But beyond debate it is a golden age of writing about China, and therefore of things to read. There are...
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The False Equivalence Chronicles: 'NYT' Follow-Up
Last week I mentioned an NYT story about Congressional dysfunction that likened the minority-party's plight in the House to the (actually very different) situation of a filibuster-empowered minority in...
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Two Political Stories, Hold the False Equivalence
Something truly remarkable is underway in party politics at the moment. One of our national parties has lost the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections, and its future on the...
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Detroit's Distress, and the 'Curious Unevenness' of American Blessings'
With the city bankruptcy news, a reminder of the best Super Bowl commercial ever -- yes, including '1984.' From two years ago, with Eminem.I hardly know anything first-hand about Detroit, but this ad...
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All-American Detroit
A reader who grew up on the East Coast, went to college at U Michigan, and now lives on the West Coast writes about the Detroit bankruptcy news:My only connection to Detroit was as a student in Ann...
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Back to Asiana 214
Let me try to work through a few of the leads, responses, red herrings, and insights that readers have sent in since the crash two weeks ago.1) An illuminating video recreation. Here is a useful...
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2 Lithe Little Apps
Complex and powerful software has its place, in my working life and in my heart. Why else would I have loved wrestling with a long sequence of "interesting" programs, from KnowledgeMan to Paradox to...
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Today in Asiana 214 News
A roundup from readers around the world.1) Korean pilots doth protest. According to AVweb, the union representing Asiana pilots has filed a protest against the NTSB because of "NTSB's press conferences...
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Next for Your Reading List: 'Mother Daughter Me'
The reading public knows Katie Hafner for the technology-and-society stories she has written through the years in the New York Times and elsewhere -- or for her books, the previous one of which was A...
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This Week in Beer News
Catching up from a week on the road.1) Beer labels in motion. Thanks to all who sent links to this delightful Tumblr site, which includes animations of a number of favorite beer labels, like the one...
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Asiana 214: Airplane as Hero, and Other Analyses
Three weeks after the crash, I hear from several travelers that debris from Asiana 214 is still visible at SFO, apparently as investigators keep working through the clues. I am entering my last...
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Why NSA Surveillance Will Be More Damaging Than You Think
This column over the weekend, by the British academic John Naughton in the Guardian, takes us one more step in assessing the damage to American interests in the broadest sense-- commercial, strategic,...
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A False Equivalence Classic
A reader sent in the paragraph below as another classic in the false-equivalence chronicles. It comes from a bigtime news organization, and if you wanted you could of course track down the source...
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A Quick False-Equivalence Update
This morning I mentioned a news story that presented the debt-ceiling showdown as another illustration of no-one's-to-blame partisan gridlock in Washington. Here are samples of the two main kinds of...
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'American Futures': Introducing Our New Project
Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead more Just today, August 1st, the Atlantic is announcing a new project called "American Futures." You can read all the details in an introductory post...
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It's IPA Day
It's probably just a coincidence that this shares a date with our American Futures kick-off day. Probably. But I would be remiss in letting much more of August 1 go by without noting that this is the...
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End of an Era: Tommy Mischke Leaves the Airwaves
Back in 2000, when for odd reasons I was spending a lot of time driving back and forth through northern Minnesota, I learned about and became fascinated with the St. Paul-based radio humorist /...
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