“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first we practice to deceive.” Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis should have taken a warning from Sir Walter Scott in her high school English class. Tangled in Davis’s web are the…
Episode 3 of Downton Abbey, which aired on Sunday, left fans unsatisfied. (Spoilers: Be warned.) The first concern for everyone is Anna’s mental well-being. After a terrible sexual assault that thankfully happened off-screen (unlike Sybil’s dramatic labor and death scene),…
In his speech today on the NSA, Obama outlined the “concrete and substantial reforms” he formulated after consulting “an outside review group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies.” If you dozed off during the almost hour-long speech, here are some highlights:…
The Chinese New Citizens Movement’s fight for constitutional freedom continues to face fierce opposition from China’s new president, Xi Jinping. Not only did the Chinese government arrest the movement’s leader, Xu Zhinyong, in July for “assembling a crowd to disrupt…
