Thus Blogged Anderson

A common refrain from opponents of the Affordable Care Act is "we can't afford the Affordable Care Act." Paul Krugman points ...

John Stuart Mill published On Liberty in 1859, having been working on it for five years; chapter III is his argument for individuality as a...

Emptywheel provides more of her detective work on the genesis of the torture memos -- see her post here and its links to recent work on the...

Every time I see a new magazine "for amusement" come out, I think sadly, Good God, another person on the point of jumping into the...

Here is what happened to Malaika Brooks, a pregnant mother, as she was driving her son to school one day: Two, soon three, police officers s...

Visiting Philadelphia on the way back from Vermont, TBA found the little "print shop" at Franklin Court , where you can watch the ...

You probably knew that. But Brad DeLong posts proof : As the fugleman for conservative despair, I am of course neither shaken nor stirred a...

The current meme at the blogs I read is to post the most influential books one's read - influential on oneself, that is, regardless of m...

Just because one can drive straight from Jackson, MS to Gettysburg, PA, or from Philadelphia, PA to Jackson, MS, does not mean that one sho...

For a week or so, probably. TBA is off with the family to Vermont, which evidently is worth visiting for reasons which will become more rea...

If I were worthy to advise, the slow speaker, methinks, should be more proper for the pulpit, and the other for the bar: and that because th...

"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, t...

He was shocked -- shocked! Except he saw it all coming. Except no one could. Simon Johnson is exactly who you'd want to review Paulson...

Considering how many times one sees it argued that waterboarding isn't torture because no water actually enters the throat, etc., this n...

In the spring of 1899, a thin, bespectacled French army colonel named Arsene Klobb began making his way eastward from a colonial outpost in ...