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Archives for September 2014


Strip away all the color and all the dialogue and you have a master class in staging.


We’ve tried the whole “cheap credit instead of higher wages” thing before and it doesn’t have a happy ending. People need money, not loans.


Obama’s airstrikes in Syria aren’t much of a surprise: he said that they were coming in a September 10th speech. But did that give ISIS too much time to prepare?


The issue goes further than recreational marijuana use.


The show uses your own knowledge of how modern serialized television works against you.


A site was set up threatening to release private nude photos of Emma Watson, apparently because she stood up for gender equality. The threats against her are an attack on all of us, and we need to take it personally.


The decline of the maid’s room and the Lower East Side tenement are to blame.


130,000 refugees flooded into Turkey in just three days.


The first-ever US air strikes against ISIS in Syria are shrouded in a degree of mystery.


The world’s leaders are hoping to get a new climate deal in place by 2015.


Its decorative gourd season — and demand for mini-pumpkins is just out of control.


The new US bombing campaign in Syria is part of a broader strategy to root ISIS out of both Syria and Iraq. Too bad it’s likely to fail.


Abdulkader Hariri identified the American drones and warplanes filling the skies over Raqqa 30 minutes before they were officially announced.


Absent congressional action, the executive branch is striking out on its own to curb tax inversions

