Martin O’Malley wants to run for President one day, but he can’t even fix America’s worst public utility company.
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July 3, 2012
Posted in Domestic Policy, Politics
July 2, 2012
A look at the Russian diaspora in Syria—some 20,000 wives in particular—offers insights into the complex relationship between the two countries.
Posted in Culture, Foreign Policy
June 27, 2012
Saying farewell to Chocolate City.
Posted in Culture
June 26, 2012
Leon Kass looks at the other war on poverty.
Posted in Culture
June 6, 2012
Ray Bradbury, 91, author of classics like The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes, has died.
Posted in Arts & Literature
April 24, 2012
With routinely more deaths than births per year, Japan is now a “net mortality society.”
April 13, 2012
Did you get rejected by Stanford? Are you a liberal arts major, or what the techies would call a “fuzzy”? Then you might have what it takes to master CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Then again, you might not, but it costs nothing to try.
Posted in Education, Technology
April 2, 2012
Andy Revkin of the New York Times‘s Dot Earth blog is O.K. with the processed beef scrap filler known as “pink slime”, and he thinks you should be O.K. with it too.
Posted in Uncategorized
March 27, 2012
“Physics at the Fringe”, says Freeman Dyson, is what happens when imagination loses touch with observation.
Posted in Science
March 20, 2012
There’s a certain knack for eliciting untutored, naturalistic performances from child actors, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are among the best in the business. Their secret? Embracing the unknown.
Posted in Arts & Literature
March 15, 2012
The financial crisis is bringing back home the old saw that markets corrode morals, says Michael Sandel.
Posted in Culture
March 9, 2012
China Miéville’s lament of the cruelties of British justice in the aftermath of the London riots, says Theodore Dalrymple, is the product of a ”typical intellectual whose indifference to the actual lives of the urban poor masquerades as compassion for them.”
Posted in Uncategorized
