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A Gizmo That Works: Wi-Fi Range Extender
I realize that a Wi-Fi signal that doesn't quite cover the entire house epitomizes the "stop, you're breaking my heart!" rarefied complaint. By the way, please see Alexis Madrigal's very sensible...
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'A Process That Is Running Out of Control': The New Nullification Crisis
Before the episode recedes fully from the news, please read this item, by Jonathan Cohn on Thursday evening, about the extraordinary step the Senate Republicans took that day. Cohn says that the...
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A Republican Doubles-Down on Nullification
Maybe it's something about being a U.S. Senator from South Carolina. Today on Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsay Graham flat-out declared the Republican intention to nullify the already-passed legislation to...
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'What Are Those Traditions? Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash'
Ta-Nehisi Coates writes today about the persistence into this moment's news of the past centuries' racial traumas and racist institutions. Mike Lofgren, who recently retired from a career as a...
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The Gingrich-Huntsman 'Debate'
I put "debate" in quotes because this was more like a well-mannered talk show with two guests. Archived video on this site. Here's the significant point:This was the first GOP debate of the four...
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Mark Your Calendars: Huntsman-Gingrich Today, Three Gorges Tomorrow
Dec 12, 4pm, Newt Gingrich-Jon Huntsman "Lincoln-Douglas Debate" on foreign policy. Livestream on Huntsman site or here; C-Span rebroadcast at 8 pm. And if, after the debate, you're still looking for...
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Your 'Politics Going to Hell' Morning Reading List
1) Hey hey, ho ho, filibuster's gotta go. Looking for a nice law-review-style analysis of what's wrong with the filibuster? Look no further! The summer issue of the Harvard Journal on Legislation has...
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'A Dumb Person's Idea of a Smart Person': Whose Line Is It?
Last night I quoted items from Stephen Budiansky and Andrew Sullivan, both about Newt Gingrich. Budiansky, whose father was an eminent professor at Harvard, said that Gingrich sounded like the cartoon...
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Maybe Subramanian Swamy Should Have Gone to Yale?
Whenever I have followed the government news out of India, I have looked for the name Subramanian Swamy. It was because of him that I got into journalism. Recently I was startled to see his name in the...
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Let's Talk Kindles-on-Takeoff One More Time
In honor of the FAA's decision to allow American Airlines pilots to use iPads for their flight charts, versus the voluminous paper charts that fill those square briefcases you see pilots lugging around...
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What's Up in China: Hint, It's Not War With the U.S.
There is a lot of big news in and from China right now, and to touch on a few elements before signing off for a while:1) The outright rebellion that has erupted in the southern coastal town of Wukan is...
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The Nullification Chronicles Roll On
The Congress is finally moving ahead on a budget bill and a temporary extension of the payroll tax cut. End of obstructionism and modern "nullification"? Unfortunately not:- Our old friend Sen. Mitch...
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Vaclav Havel
I have no standing to note the death of Vaclav Havel except in recognition of how during my lifetime he helped make the world more decent and promising, through his combination of literary skill, civic...
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The Death of Kim Jong-Il, as Broadcast to His People
I can't understand this, but I feel as if I do. Very much worth watching.Â
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More Expressions of Grief From the North Korean People
The sobbing TV broadcaster who broke the original news was by comparison quite stoic. Thanks to Jared Keller.
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The Complexities of Christopher Hitchens
The Atlantic has had a number of tributes to our contributor Christopher Hitchens, including notably this heartfelt one by his good friend and longtime editor here, Benjamin Schwarz. As Schwarz says,...
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A Brilliant Doonesbury Today
Click to see it in more detail. The original is here. "Not one has taken responsibility for the biggest foreign policy disaster in U.S. history." Correct.
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About The Terrible Small-Plane Crash over I-287 in New Jersey
(See update below.) The first reaction to news of the crash yesterday over I-287 in New Jersey, in which a married couple in their 40s, their two children, and a friend in his 30s all died (plus a...
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What I Want For Christmas
Now that you ask. Thanks to my old Shanghai/Beijing colleague Louisa Lim of NPR for the tip. Place your orders here.
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A Step Away From False Equivalence?
Here is the headline on the Washington Post's site just now: Note that it doesn't say "Two sides reach compromise" or "Extremists of the left and right yield to centrist views." This crisis was created...
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