The New York Times has a somewhat grudging editorial this morning about research that came out a week ago showing that some abstinence-only programs are more effective at delaying sexual activity. The University of Pennsylvania study has gotten high marks from groups like the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, which doesn’t have [...]
In political journalism, process stories are said to be bad. They are too inside baseball. They track only incremental movement. They are technical and complex. Readers have better things to do. They care about what happened, not how it is happening (or why it is not happening). They want to know about results. (For what [...]
This is an excellent essay by Kurt Andersen, tying together many of the threads about the ugly and recalcitrant nature of populism that I’ve been posting on in recent days. Anderson makes an important point that is, at once, completely obvious but rarely remarked upon: populism became more a right-wing movement in the 20th century [...]
Chris Wallace has taken a lot of criticism in recent months from the White House and other Democrats for allegedly crossing that hazy Fox News line between news gathering and conservative punditry. But on Sunday, Wallace had his Fox News colleague Sarah Palin as a guest, and it was a real journalistic interview. Unlike Fox [...]
As Jay Newton-Small notes below, Sarah Palin inked some crib notes on her hand in preparation for her “big” speech to the Tea Party soiree. This has caused glee and derision in the left-wing blogosphere (as has her rather, well, unsubtle wearing of a joint US-Israeli flag pin). I have no problem with either gesture. [...]
Iran continues to play games with the rest of the world with regard to its nuclear program. This weekend, we’ve had the Foreign Minister claiming that a nuclear deal was close. And Ahmadinejad threatening the exact opposite: a further augmentation of its highly enriched uranium for use in a nuclear reactor to produce medical isotopes. [...]
David Ignatius believes there’s a chance for a thaw between India and Pakistan. If it were true, and the subcontinent was stabilized–and Pakistan no longer felt a need to rely on Muslim extremist groups as a counterforce against India–the situation in Afghanistan would be vastly defused.
The Q&A portion of Sarah Palin’s appearance before the National Tea Party Convention was supposed to be a casual give and take of a few pre-submitted and pre-screened questions. We don’t know if Palin got those questions in advance but at one point during the session she seems to be reading something off of her [...]
