Today's Los Angeles Times features a story about two former Black Panthers imprisoned some 35 years ago for the killing of a guard at Louisiana…
Read moreUntil January, when I began reading the print version of the New York Times here in Boston rather than the online version in Paris, I would post the…
Read moreI'm heading back to Paris for the summer in two weeks, after a very enjoyable semester teaching in Boston (although I will will be back again to …
Read moreFar be it for me, a lowly novice blogger, to add anything to the mountains of paper, rivers of ink, and zigabytes of bandwidth (how do we measure ban…
Read moreThe view from the back of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Cloudy skies, a lazy day, and 322 Saturday Evening Post covers …
Read moreAs you know, one of today's big news stories was the 6-3 Supreme Court decision upholding Indiana's law requiring a government-issued photo I…
Read moreSome of you will have seen, in yesterday's New York Times , another in a series of critical pieces about John McCain. This one focuses on possib…
Read moreIf I were a cynical person I would say that the networks have conspired not to call the election for Hillary so they don't lose most of their vie…
Read moreWhile I am linking to pieces by friends, journalist-commentator Marc Cooper nails the meaning of the Pennsylvania primary in a sharp, acid post toda…
Read moreIn today's New York Times Science Times, my friend and colleague Carl Zimmer--one of the world's top science writers--writes about the geneti…
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