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5 Apr 2013, 5:41 pm by Tom Smith
Japan plans to flood its economy with freshly printed yen in coming months in an effort to shock one of the world’s major industrial powers out of a 20-year-old stupor. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 11:26 am by Tom Smith
Seldom in Barack Obama’s presidency has he looked quite so impotent as he did last night, pleading from a podium in the White House for calm while the cable news split screens showed clouds of tear gas enveloping the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 7:31 am by Tom Smith
Amid the ritual expressions of regret and the pledges of “never again” on Tuesday’s 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a bitter irony was noted: Anti-Semitism has returned to Europe. [read post]
20 Oct 2018, 7:07 pm
One of the most important ways to combat the gathering storm is to be aware that it’s coming — to become more mindful of the ways that confirmation bias and narrower networks distort our view of reality. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 7:45 am by Tom Smith
The killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., has produced a rare and surprisingly unified response across the ideological spectrum, with Republicans and Democrats joining to decry the tactics of the city’s police force in the face of escalating protests. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 10:05 pm by Tom Smith
The question of whether Barack Obama’s second term will be a failure was answered in the affirmative before his Berlin debacle, which has recast the question, which now is: Will this term be silly, even scary in its detachment from reality? [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 11:19 am by Tom Smith
A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency’s daily collection of virtually all Americans’ phone records is almost certainly unconstitutional. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 9:41 am by Tom Smith
Supreme Court justice and pop culture icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg left the hospital yesterday after having a heart stent implanted and expects to be back at work Monday. [read post]
22 Aug 2015, 12:47 pm by Tom Smith
I know this because in the late 1990s the federal government devised a measure of the best and worst places to live in America, from the standpoint of scenery and climate. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 9:06 am by Tom Smith
But getting back to the zombies: It wasn’t just people who came back alarmingly in 2013. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 4:23 pm by Tom Smith
At an October 2013 panel, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the Affordable Care Act, admitted that it was passed by exploiting political ignorance. [read post]
23 Jun 2013, 1:22 pm by Tom Smith
The National Security Agency may keep the e-mails and telephone calls of citizens and legal residents if the communications contain “significant foreign intelligence” or evidence of a crime, according to classified documents that lay out procedures for targeting foreigners and for guarding Americans’ privacy. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 3:28 pm by Tom Smith
Rather than prevaricate, the Islamic State has now released a new issue of its magazine, called Dabiq, that exalts the slavery and rape of women. [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 3:33 pm by Tom Smith
Besides, the number that matters is not how many Americans signed up for Obamacare but rather how many previously uninsured Americans signed up for Obamacare. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 12:53 pm by Tom Smith
The historic launch of Orion, NASA’s much-heralded, next-generation spacecraft, was scrubbed Thursday because of faulty valves. [read post]
9 May 2014, 6:51 am by Tom Smith
The Democrats are portraying the not-yet-even-constituted House Select Committee on Benghazi as nothing but a partisan exercise. [read post]