"Sith" > "Jedi" I must give Kevin Drum full marks for bravery. It can't be easy to admit that you think that "Return of the Jedi" is the grea...

Does unemployment affect midterm elections? I've seen no small amount of hand-wringing from Democrats worried about the impact of the current double-digit unemployment on next year...

"V" and the Radicalization of the Comfortable I recently re-watched the original 1983 "V" miniseries with my kids. If you don't recall it, the premise is that aliens come...

Finally, a good film about the presidency I saw "Lincoln" the other night. This is a very good and very rich film -- it contains a great deal of detail, both in the scri...

Temperature Trends Andrew Gelman is right: this graph is pretty bad. If you want to get a sense of what temperature trends look like over the past century or...