Well, I didn’t do my annual Teddy Awards this year–named after Theodore Roosevelt, for political courage. I was in Afghanistan during the weeks I usually suss that one out, but I also was sort of stumped: it wasn’t a particularly stellar year for political courage. As a chronic and pathetically loyal Mets fan, I know [...]
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that federal authorities had opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Christine O’Donnell, a former candidate for the U.S. Senate from Delaware, had misused campaign contributions. The key facts went like this: Although O’Donnell’s campaign has denied wrongdoing, she has acknowledged she paid part of her rent at times with [...]
–In a mag piece this week, Scherer examines the chilly and consequential relationship between the President and one of his principal antagonists, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Republican’s contention that the top GOP priority should be ousting Obama in 2012 spurred much head-scratching among the punditry over why he’d give voice to a fairly [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, ever the honest broker when it comes to Israel’s strengths and weaknesses, is worried about the future of democracy there. I’m more worried about the future of civility, the demonizing and dehumanization of the Palestinians; and the fierce potential for violence, especially renewed terrorism, given the blatantly illegal provocations of the Jewish settlers. [...]
The Weekly Standard’s reliably pedestrian Noemie Emerie has a fabulous piece –in the sense that, say, Pinocchio, is a fable–detailing the tsunami of bad news that will ensue for Democrats because of the American people’s rejection of health care legislation as manifested in the midterm elections of 2010. I agree, in a limited sense, that [...]
Mark Benjamin breaks some news with a TIME.com story about George Clooney’s plans (yes, that George Clooney) to hire private satellites to track troop movements in Sudan, in the hopes of stopping another genocide. He writes: Starting Dec. 30, the Satellite Sentinel Project — a joint experiment by the U.N.’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme, Harvard [...]
Things are a little slow around TIME’s New York office this week, with some of our staff still stranded elsewhere thanks to the blizzard of 2010. The week between Christmas and New Year’s is also notoriously slow in the news business, with the President out of town and Congress out of session. All of which [...]
“We’ve become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything. If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing calculus on the way down.” –Pennsylvania [...]
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