There is a lot of buzz today about two related issues: Will Hillary stay in the race, and will she be offered the VP slot--thus creating the so-calle…
Read moreLike many of you, I stayed up way too late last night thinking that Obama might just take Indiana by a vote or two, and downed a few too many cognacs…
Read moreThe returns from Indiana are not fully in yet, but that race clearly will be very close--while Obama racks up a nice pile of new delegates from his c…
Read moreIn a column in today's New York Times entitled " Doing the Troops Wrong ," op-ed writer Bob Herbert discusses the "New G.I. Bill&…
Read moreI can't say it any better this morning than my blogger pal Marc Cooper did in his latest post, so I'm just going to reproduce his comments h…
Read moreI'm spending this rainy Sunday morning in Boston correcting my students' final papers, while listening to Ken Laster's fabulous weekly ja…
Read moreToday'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…
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