Bill McKibben on the Keystone XL pipeline, David Brooks on the shortcomings of big data, William Pesek on China's North Korean neighbors, Scott Winship on the robot economy, and Jonah Goldberg on liberal Hollywood.
When George Will described American football as a liberal institution in his weekend column for The Washington Post, the missive was discarded as an outgrowth of Will's reactionary crankiness.
Some sort of slickster-sounding company called Buyology that does "neuro-insight" recently surveyed 4,000 Americans asking them how they feel about various products. Part of what they learned is that HBO and Showtime are "the most politically polarizing brands in entertainment." Democrats are totally into them but Republicans really are not.
When Rachel Maddow explains why MSNBC leans forward instead of left, she does it wearing hoodies.
There are two things that political conspiracy e-mail forwards have in common: Conservatives and senior citizens.
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