It’s almost as if basing a community around people who hate other people and don’t want to have to pay for any services that don’t directly and concretely benefit themselves is inherently unstable. Who would have thought?

New York Times speaks out.

An (African-)American in Paris.

No comment.

A man who almost gets it.

Long but very important piece.

Bypassing Congress to act on climate change.

Sometimes it's good for us commentators to admit that it doesn't matter much!

Sheer barbarism.

My old mate John Norris with a brilliant piece about journalist Mary McGrory.

@LizHand writes.

Very long but very interesting - basically, build more houses!

As bad as you'd think.

Colorado's prison director writes.

Diddums.

Hooray!

Good.

An attempt to legalise homophobia.

On average, about 1.79 million reasons why.

Josh Marshall on the wealthy.

Thanks in part to my friend Louis O'Neill.

Extraordinary story of petty local politics.

A geopolitical roundup which tries not to be US-centric but does not quite succeed!

Another win in the war on - who, exactly???

@ForeignPolicy's pessimistic 2014 outlook.

Industry challenges the securocrats.

Unarmed man, shot by police, charged with assault for bullet wounds to bystanders. Seriously.

American Foreign Policy in the Age of Leaks

America! Where anyone can run for the highest office in the land, provided they are richer than Jeb Bush.

Wrong to say that US constitutionalism works better, right to highlight role of women.