For some time now, certain misguided voices have been calling for a boycott of the Olympic games in Berlin, on the grounds that the German governmen…
Read moreRegular visitors to this blog probably think I read nothing but the New York Times , since so many of my posts start off with stories from the "…
Read morePolice are saying that Jim Adkisson, the alleged shooter in Sunday's tragedy at a Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, Tennessee--which le…
Read moreOver the past weeks, while the McCain campaign has been browbeating Barack Obama for opposing the "surge" and for being slow to admit that …
Read moreLast month I discussed two episodes in which Iraqi civilians were killed by the U.S. military, and in which Iraqi and U.S. officials gave conflictin…
Read moreMy journalist-blogger colleague Marc Cooper comments on a Truthdig post by Chris Hedges lamenting the demise of the newspaper and the rise of the in…
Read moreNew York Times columnist Bob Herbert asks all the right questions about McCain today in a piece entitled "Getting to Know You." Check it o…
Read moreYup, that's what the latest study says, published in Science . My colleague David Malakoff writes about it here on our ScienceNOW news service. …
Read moreShould our Medicare dollars be going to keep old people alive? No, says Slate's " Human Nature" columnist, William Saletan, in a post …
Read moreMuch is being made of how dramatically Karadzic changed his appearance so that he would not be "recognized" while he was hiding from war cr…
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