Up till now, this has been a notably cheerful year for admirers of Ernest Hemingway – a surprisingly diverse set of people who range from Michael Palin to Elmore Leonard. Almost every month has brought good news: a planned Hemingway biopic; a new, improved version of his memoir, A Moveable Feast; the opening of a digital archive of papers...
One of the most refreshingly honest moments of the 2008 campaign came when Peggy Noonan, a columnist and former Republican speechwriter, was caught on a live mike calling the choice of Sarah Palin to run on the Republican ticket \"political bullshit.\" She smoothed over her harsh remarks in a subsequent column, saying she liked Palin even if she wasn
A new study by the Pew Research Center finds that the GOP is alienating scientists to a startling degree. Only six percent of America\'s scientists identify themselves as Republicans; fifty-five percent call themselves Democrats.
The revelation from seven Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee that they were misled about a critical CIA program has sparked a debate that touches on the most sensitive areas of national security policy. What program, exactly, was being kept secret?
The Minnesota Republican Party has tied off a remaining loose end from the epic, eight-month battle to determine a winner in the 2008 Minnesota Senate race, sending Democratic Sen. Al Franken\'s campaign a check for almost $96,000 that was owed to him by Republican former Sen. Norm Coleman\'s campaign.