There are, inevitably, scads of recommendations for beach reading at the start of every summer. I’d like to reverse that and recommend two extraordinary among the dozen I’ve read since the solstice. Both are written by women–both might even be called “women’s” books. But I’ve always been a fan of women, women writers and women [...]
The president just spoke from the Rose garden this morning to hail the somewhat encouraging new job numbers, which while terrible by most definitions came in better than expected, and at least signal that we’re probably not (yet) veering into a dreaded double-dip recession. Acknowledging that there’s a long way to go, Obama said that [...]
It basically went like this: On the upside, she may have won the hates-public-speaking vote.
TIME’s Elizabeth Dias files this report: Glenn Beck’s revival may appear to forecast him as less of a leader for America’s evangelical base than one might think. In fact, many evangelical leaders suggest Beck’s success could ultimately fail–if pulpits carefully parse the distinction Beck fails to make between Christianity and civil religion. Leith Anderson, the [...]
One fascinating subplot of the Middle East peace talks in Washington this week is the role of Egyptian president/dictator Hosni Mubarak. The 82-year old Mubarak, who has long governed Egypt with an iron fist–but has served as a useful strategic partner for America–is very old, visibly frail, and possibly cancer-ridden. For many months he has [...]
Like a deserted wife who, years after the fact, still insists her husband is due home any day, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka seems a bit out of touch. Making the traditional Labor Day rounds, his assertions about what voters will be swayed by and how races will pan out this fall just don’t jibe with [...]
Despite what you may have heard from Republican critics of health care reform, the new law may actually be good for people who work for small businesses. I’ve written about this previously, but the view is bolstered by a study out today from the RAND Corporation, which used a microsimulation model to predict how employers [...]
