Jim Newell

In an event that was not at all controversial this week, and barely, maybe for a hot second or two while cruising through Twitter, counts as interesting, President Obama was photographed taken a “selfie” of himself and the British and Danish prime ministers at Nelson ...

Democrats and aligned Democratic groups right now are faced with one of those classic, difficult questions: should they go out of their way to screw someone over because it’s fun, even if there’s a chance it causes more damage down the road? Everything people are ...

The only game that matters for the next 11 months is, how screwed will the Democrats be come November 2014? At least a little bit screwed. Control of the House isn’t in play. Control of the Senate is, however, and Democrats have to defend too many seats, due to ...

Our major publications were ready for the death of Nelson Mandela. When it came yesterday, at age 95—probably later than many, including Mandela himself, expected—we got to see the editorial plans they’d had for years in the making move into action. Time has ...

It’s several days after Amazon.com’s PR team, disguised as a “60 Minutes news segment,” unveiled its plan to have “drones” deliver small packages to customers in urban centers within the next few years, and I still can’t stop laughing ...

This week’s news brings us another entry into the well-worn “Looks like those clowns in Congress have done it again, what a bunch of clowns” category. They can’t “get anything done,” as usual, and now we have a concrete figure to anchor their ...

A diplomatic deal with any terms of any importance anywhere in the world has been made, and so the neoconservatives are in full force to cry “Munich.” Good for them. If that’s what they enjoy, let them enjoy themselves. Because they matter not in the slightest ...

The Obama administration is scared, oh so scaredy scared, of a word. It’s a big mean word, and all of liberalism must tremble in its wake: “redistribution.” The New York Times reports that, among other things, the administration in 2011 bypassed a qualified ...