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So I’m thinking that instead of bailing out Detroit, we should just give the automakers a few hundred billion dollars worth of spider drawings until they can get back on their feet.

Despite the fact that most Americans might hope that Bush lays low in the final days of his historically unpopular presidency, he’s decided to try to push through at least one last-minute agenda: a plan that would allow health care providers to refuse to perform abortions and other procedures they object to on moral or Read More

Way back before he started cashing them Atlantic Monthly checks, TNC said on his blog that one day he would explain why he and Kenyatta, his long-time companion and the mother of his children, had never married. Today, finally, he told the story of why he and Kenyatta decided not to tie the knot when Read More

On the way to work today, I was reading my copy of this week’s New Yorker, when I stumbled across this Talk of the Town piece on Prince: Recently, Prince hosted an executive who works for Philip Anschutz, the Christian businessman whose company owns the Staples Center. “We started talking red and blue,” Prince said. Read More

One of the more puzzling aspects of Obama’s win has been the extent to which people have argued that the symbolism of his presidency will remove some huge psychic encumbrance from the souls of black people and compel Negroes to “do better.” (At that Princeton lecture shani-o and I went to, a white guy asked Read More

Frank Rich: When David Letterman said that the 10 G.O.P. presidential candidates at an early debate looked like “guys waiting to tee off at a restricted country club,” he was the first to correctly call the election. On Nov. 4, that’s roughly the sole constituency that remained loyal to the party — minus its wealthiest slice, a Read More
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