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Back to the Issues: More Security Theater
My colleague Jeff Goldberg has cornered the market in descriptions of the TSA's newly intimate pat-down procedures. A reader from a high-tech manufacturing company writes in to describe his family's...
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See Ourselves as Others See Us
Here is a fascinating data point. A service that routinely translates mainstream Chinese news sources has these items from today's digest:>>Global Times/Huanqiu Shibao (Daily, circ. 1.5 mil) [...
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Policy Corner: How to Think About 'Stimulus'
One of many victories for Republicans over the past year has been to convert the word "stimulus," in its economic sense, into a term of abuse. In ye olden days, it was a neutral description of public...
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More on Diabetics vs the TSA
On TSA news in general, see Jeff Goldberg's latest post about a kind of high-end, ultra-polite, but firm campaign of resistance by American Airlines pilots against the newest TSA rules. On this same...
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So Much More on the 'Chinese Professor'!
Recently I quoted a testy reader who thought it "racist" of me to say that Chinese-Americans looked richer and better-fed than their distant cousins who had grown up in mainland China. Now, three...
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Guest Post: the Case for a Digital Library
Over the years -- how odd to say that about the Atlantic's web site! -- I've several times had "guest posts" from my friend David Rothman, of the Teleread site. For instance, here. I always give him...
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Something You Didn't Know About the Alaskan Recount
(See update at bottom.) Unless you're in Alaska, of course, or are an Alaskan-affairs savant. According to the Anchorage Daily News yesterday, the Tea Party/Republican candidate Joe Miller is basing a...
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It Is Interesting That She Uses Her Full Name
A story in the Portland Oregonian yesterday about John Kitzhaber's return to the governorship has this little note about prospects for the environment:"We really look forward to working with our...
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Field Guide to Identifying Americans
For those joining late, previous discussion here, here, and here. The question is whether it can be "racist" to note that there are quick visual cues to people's nationality, even when the people...
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More In-House News, Shiny Trophy Dept.
My Emmy statue has arrived! I am sure this is just what my parents were hoping to have gracing the top of the traditional family breakfront, when it ultimately ended up in one of their children's...
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The Mid-Term Elections, in One Chart
Last week Andrew Sullivan posted a chart, from Calculated Risk, suggesting why "the economy" was such a negative for Obama and the Democrats, despite the avoidance of true Great Depression-scale...
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For the Record: RIP USN&WR
This is kind of sad: word late last week of the end of U.S. News & World Report as a print publication, after a 77-year run. (Technically, it will no longer be something you can subscribe to,...
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Walk Like an American
Lots and lots of accounts piling up about the countless small cues that signal a person's nationality before he or she has uttered a word or shown a passport. (Previously here, with backward links...
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The Aussies: Serious About Smoking
Apparently this has been Australian government policy for some years now, but I'd never seen the results first-hand before. Here are the backs of two packs of cigarettes -- one of Pall Mall, one of...
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If You Happen to be in Sydney This Evening
All-purpose congratulations! Fortunate place to be. But if you're at loose ends, Morris Fiorina, of Stanford, and I will be mulling over the implications of the midterm elections, in a colloquy at the...
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Marc Ambinder
Like my Atlantic colleagues, here, here, and here, I want to note what Marc Ambinder has done on our site and in the magazine, on the occasion of his moving to another part of the building to begin...
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Walk Like an American: the German Question
Today's installment (previously here, with backward links), with thanks for the interesting accounts that continue to come in and that I'll catch up with and digest. Much discussion so far about the...
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Raw Footage from Coal Country
My story on the inescapability of coal, and how governments, scientists, and companies in the U.S. and China are trying to head off coal-borne climate disaster, is now online here. But, as always,...
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Walk Like an American: the Israeli/Indian Connection
Previously here, with subsequent links. Now, a range of experiences. >>I'm an Indian-American who just got back from an extended stay in Israel. During my first few days there, I was struck by...
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Animals in the News Dept: Boiling Frogs, Rapping Pandas
1) For years I have lamented the difficulty of finding a substitute for the ever-popular but scientifically ignorant "boiling frog" parable. At last there's hope! In his latest excellent Supreme Court...
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