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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Jack Bauer Lives - The genre of the right-wing pro-torture thriller is on a roll, propelled by Beck and Limbaugh. Jason Zengerle has a terrific piece in the new TNR on the ph...
18 minutes ago
Althouse

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility and brags "We have prepared men who love to die." - CNN reports: In the statement, published on radical Islamist Web sites, the group hailed the "brother" who carried out the "heroic attack." The group said ...
36 minutes ago
The Moderate Voice

Nate Silver Does the Math on Airline Terror - What are the odds of being on a commercial air flight with a terrorist? After crunching the numbers, Nate Silver tells us: Not very high (emphasis is Nate’...
42 minutes ago
Matthew Yglesias

Development is Important - I’m used to bad Washington Post editorials, but this one really breaks new ground in terms of red baiting and absurdity: As Ms. Clinton herself suggested, ...
59 minutes ago
Jeffrey Goldberg

Andrew Sullivan, Hannah Rosenthal and Neocons - Andrew Sullivan writes, in reference my charge that Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department's anti-anti-Semitism czar, made as her "first target" of criti...
1 hour ago
Obsidian Wings

Draining the Swamp...Again and Again and Again - by Eric Martin Matt Duss on Lieberman's most recent bout of warmongering with respect to Yemen. One wonders whether these are the types of dots that Pete Hoe...
1 hour ago
The Corner

An Iron-Lunged Christmas Gift to Us All -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez - The story of the life of Martha Mason and her family is one of a love of life, even with -- or maybe especially because of -- great pain and sacrifice and ...
1 hour ago
FP Passport

Move over Sully, it's time for the Flying Dutchman - If anything good has come from the Flight 253 terror attack -- in which a 23-year-old Nigerian man attempted to detonate an explosive on a flight from A...
1 hour ago
The Debatable Land

The lessons of New York's falling murder rate - New York’s ever falling murder rate is one of the wonders of modern urban policy. It is proof that decisive political leadership can arrest and then reve...
1 hour ago
Balloon Juice

More Obama fail - This is disappointing, obviously: Obama has wielded the power of the White House to craft an executive order that limited lobbyist hires in his administrat...
2 hours ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Dream Of Invunerability - Megan on the TSA: Terrorists are bound to get through airport security if they really want, or do something worse, like blow up the crowds of people patien...
2 hours ago
Megan McArdle

How Much Do We Waste in the Last Months of Life? - One statistic that you hear over and over in the health care debate is how much money we spend on treating people in "their last year of life". I've never...
2 hours ago
Talking Points Memo

"I Love You and Believe in You." - Startin' to look like Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) was a bit tighter with indicted Ponzi scheme Sir Allen Stanford than he let on back in February. If you're ...
3 hours ago
Stephen M. Walt

Getting comfortable with imperfect security - After reading several post-mortems on the abortive attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253 the other day, there's little doubt that the security proced...
3 hours ago
The Plank

Debunking the 'Great Satan' Myth: Abbas Milani on NPR - Contributing editor Abbas Milani was asked on to NPR's *All Things Considered* over the weekend to discuss his recent *TNR *piece, "The Great Satan Myth....
3 hours ago
Swampland

Janet Napolitano - Once lost, credibility is a difficult thing to get back. Especially when you hold a position where the public's safety rides on your instincts and reflexes...
3 hours ago
AmSpecBlog

How Seriously Should We Take the Christmas Bomber? - At this early stage, in which information we have is relatively limited, it's important to use caution when commenting on the attempted terrorist attack ou...
4 hours ago
Marc Ambinder

The Future: Who'll Run For President? - The media figure most likely to run for president....(polling)
5 hours ago
The Long War Journal

Suicide bomber kills 20 Shia mourners in Karachi - A suicide bomber killed 20 Pakistani Shia worshippers as they marched in a procession in the port city of Karachi. The blast also wounded up to 60 more P...
5 hours ago
But, I am a Liberal!

Useful idiots of the Day - Pastors for “Peace” hold hands with Cuban dictator. Oh, the irony. Rev. Lucius Walker, Ellen Bernstien, and Rev. Tom Smith are all present in the picture...
6 hours ago
Politico Top Stories

Poll: Pelosi, GOP 2009 'losers' - About half of those surveyed rated Pelosi and congressional Republicans as 'losers.'
7 hours ago
The American Scene

A Supposedly Good Restaurant I'll Never Eat at Again - It isn’t that the food is bad. The drinks are atrocious — our capable waiter confessed that extra simple syrup is added to almost every cocktail, even t...
18 hours ago
Pat Buchanan

Of Christmas, War and Peace - By Patrick J. Buchanan “And this shall be a sign unto you: You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger. “And suddenly t...
1 day ago
The American Conservative

Fake is just A OK here - Although Christmas has past, if still you’re still looking to exchange gifts or use a gift card, perhaps might I recommend a book entitled Tinsel: A Searc...
1 day ago
The Spine

Eight Pieces, Really One: Iran, Israel's Military Doctrine, The President And One Dumb Jewish Woman, The Wages of Copenhagen, The Christmas Terrorist, We Should All Stop Talking About The Middle East - Jews usually go out to the movies on Christmas ... and then they go out to eat "Chinese." I've spent it writing. Below is my harvest. I wish you all good...
2 days ago
Glenn Greenwald

The Joys of Airstrikes and Anonymity - Each time the U.S. bombs a new location in the Muslim world, the same pattern emerges. First, officials from the U.S. or allied governments run to their...
2 days ago
In Medias Res

Friday Morning Videos: "Do They Know Its Christmas (Live)" - I put this one up on the day after Christmas last year; this year, I get to do it on the day of. And for this year's version, a live performance of the son...
3 days ago
Taki’s Magazine

War & Peace - “And this shall be a sign unto you: You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger. “And suddenly there was with the Angel a ...
3 days ago
Ezra Klein

Victory at What Cost? - The Senate's passage of health reform is a great step forward, but reveals how difficult future legislative victories, and governing, will be for Obama.
3 days ago
Eunomia

The Tide Keeps Rising - As I mentioned yesterday, the only political tide that seems to be rising is the public’s increasing support for military action against Iran. Via Scoblete...
5 days ago
Will Wilkinson

Ackerman on Rawls - I just got around to reading Bruce Ackerman’s 1994 paper “Political Liberalisms,” and I wish I’d gotten to it sooner. It contains a splendid rant against R...
5 days ago
Environment and Energy

Drudge Watch: Strange Bedfellows Edition - Oh hey look, the Drudge Report’s front page is trumpeting the news that Cuba’s foreign minister had some harsh words for President Obama over the Copenha...
5 days ago
Elizabeth Nolan Brown

December Mix: Homeward Bound, & Everywhere - Sound Cloud Link: http://soundcloud.com/enbrown/sets/homeward-bound-everywhere Last year’s December mix: My Christmas Present to the Blogosphere Tracklist ...
1 week ago
The Diary of a Secular Conservative

Playing The Hand We’re Dealt - I think that by and large, most actors on the world’s stage are rational people with a relatively level head and a healthy sense of self-interest, but even...
1 week ago
Damon Linker

An Unexceptional Nation - Neocons have begun to warm to Barack Obama’s foreign policy vision. What they’ve liked about his recent speeches (at West Point, but far more so in Oslo)...
1 week ago
L'Hôte

El Hombre - by William Carlos Williams It’s a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
3 months ago
some political

On Palestinian Unilateralism - The always-savory bitterlemons is especially interesting this week: four essays that seem, for once, to converge in agreement. The topic at hand is Palesti...
3 months ago
Indistinct Union

Spiritual Lines and Action: A (Appreciative/Critical) Response to Craig Hamilton - Craig Hamilton’s new site Integral Enlightenment is worth a look. To say upfront: I really appreciate what Craig is doing and I wish him all the best. H...
4 months ago
Civitate

The City Summer 2009: Full Edition - The Summer 2009 issue of The City has been posted in full via zmags, and is now available below. We hope you enjoy it. var thumb = new Thumb(189236, "myThu...
4 months ago
Postmodern Conservative

We’ve Moved - To new digs getting newer, here. Adjust your bookmarks accordingly, and thanks for your continued readership.
8 months ago
Ross Douthat

A Goodbye - This has been my last week at *The Atlantic*. The magazine has been my home for seven years, under four editors, permanent and interim: The late Michael Ke...
8 months ago
Publius Endures

Can Judges Be Tyrants? - So, I'm returning to these old digs to promote a unique piece on which I'm the co-author over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. The piece is a conversat...
8 months ago
The Left Conservative

In Defense of McCarthyism - It's not online yet, but Dan McCarthy's piece for the first issue of Young American Revolution, is remarkable for a number of reasons. Aside from the fact ...
9 months ago
The Politics of Scrabble

Don’t Take Any Guff From These Swine - In two weeks The Politics of Scrabble will cease to be. The registration is up after one year and given that all of my writing has migrated over to The Lea...
9 months ago
Ladyblog

CPAC Adventures - I’m at the Conservative Political Action Conference in DC, an annual orgy of the right-leaning masses, laden with star-studded speakers and wide-eyed activ...
10 months ago
NeoConstant

A word or two more - Okay. So from a handful of Neo’s former writers I’ve gotten nothing but kind words and encouragement. Thanks to Courtney, Roland, Walker, Edward, etc. for...
10 months ago
The Confabulum

The Ladyblog Lives — Patronize, Please - There’s been some rumors about the fate of C11 now that we’re "officially" over. I can’t speak for the rest of the site, but for now, Ladyblog lives on. Pl...
10 months ago
Upturned Earth

Can I Still Announce My Support for the Journalism Bailout? - No doubt many of you have heard that Culture11 is shutting down, and if you hadn’t yet heard, well now you have. David Kuo and Conor have a pair of posts u...
10 months ago
Crunchy Con

Dhimmitude in Germany - This is a complete outrage: Police in the western German city of Duisburg have admitted they removed flags a student had hung in his apartment in support o...
11 months ago
The New Christians

Mission: Missouri Ministers' School - I've arrived on the shores of the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks in Osage Beach, Missouri, where I'll be addressing a couple hundred Methodist ministers over...
11 months ago

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