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"Airline food was really awful for a while, but eight out of the last 10 meals I've had have been pretty good," says Aliya Khan, a platinum-level American Airlines frequent flyer. Khan, a designer, was pleasantly surprised that, after sprinting across the Dallas airport to catch a flight...
Bill McKibben may be the world's best green journalist, but even he wishes the climate-change skeptics were right. That would mean we weren't headed for a warmer planet--one that McKibben calls Eaarth (the extra a is for extra awful)--that will be profoundly more difficult to...
"There's nothing the right, particularly the sectarian right, loves more than the federal constitution ... But I'm not sure there's any better example of what nonsense this is, or the way that the 'constitution' has just become a fetish ... than the paranoia and rage against the Census. If...
"The last pope was a great man, but he was also a weak administrator, a poor delegator, and sometimes a dreadful judge of character. The church's dilatory response to the sex abuse scandals was a testament to these weaknesses ... So the high-flying John Paul let scandals spread beneath...
"The notion that slavery shouldn't be mentioned, because everyone knows it's bad, but Robert E. Lee should be because, apparently, no one knows he was a great general, is, well, ignorant. But it's a naked emperor ignorant, an ignorant brandished by someone without the wits to know...