What's happening at polling stations in Ohio and Florida isn't some fluke of nature or breakdown in equipment. It's all part of a partisan design. A line of early voters snakes around a parking lot at a voting location in Columbus, Ohio. (Michael Finnegan/Twitter) No matter who wins the presidential…

Nice story in NY Mag about the MTA's Tom Prendergast, who directed the subways' response: http://t.co/7GeUejN5

Illustration by Gluekit.Photo: Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images (Obama); Krasilnikov Stanislav/Itar-Tass Photo/Corbis (Zuckerberg); Adele Starr/AP (Aates); Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images (West); Powell/Express/Getty Images (Warhol); Gary Gershoff/WireImage (Byrne); Paul…

Matthew Ryan Williams for The New York Times Bales of aluminum cans awaiting pickup at a waste facility in Seattle. Of all the materials that are commonly dropped in recycling bins, aluminum is by far the most valuable. New aluminum sells for almost $2,000 a metric ton, so recycling old cans would…

Everyone knows that bunting runners over is the key to scoring and winning baseball games! No, wait, it’s dumb, and should never be done! Okay, bunting is sometimes smart, sometimes not. Isn’t sabermetric analysis of strategy great? Jokes and stereotypes aside, it does seem that discussion of the…

“I’m Elizabeth Warren. And I’m running for the US Senate. Because that’s what girls do. Remember that. It’s important.” http://t.co/uqS2sfsp

The whole world is suddenly talking about election pundit Nate Silver, and as a longtime heckler of Silver I find myself at a bit of a loss. These days, Silver is saying all the right things about statistical methodology and epistemological humility; he has written what looks like a very solid…

More than 250 local visual arts professionals sign a letter supporting the development of a new and purpose-designed Vancouver Art Gallery. Costs are estimated -unofficially- at $300 million. While not exactly chump change, this is less than the cost overrun on the new and underused convention…

Posted: 5 November 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Current Events, Running | I started composing a post soon after learning of the cancelation of the 2012 New York City Marathon, but I was so affected I couldn’t put anything into words. Having arrived in New York a few days earlier amid the growing…

Leaders | Our American endorsement America could do better than Barack Obama; sadly, Mitt Romney does not fit the bill |9 min read FOUR years ago, The Economist endorsed Barack Obama for the White House with enthusiasm. So did millions of voters. Next week Americans will trudge to the polls far less…

Guest post by Kevin Simler, who works at Palantir, observes the startup scene, and writes at Melting Asphalt, about… well, go see for yourself. In their natural habitats, social species organize into characteristic groups. Gazelles form herds, wolves form packs, and ants form colonies. Humans, in…

I decided to support Barack Obama pretty early in the Democratic primary, around spring of 2007. But unlike so many of his supporters, I never experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy. I never felt his election would change everything about American politics or government, that it…

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As a kid growing up in interior British Columbia, it is impossible not to fall in love with the great outdoors. Some of the best ski hills on the continent, endless hiking and biking opportunities, and lakes that stretch over the horizon. The endless opportunities outside my doorstep would often…

It seems to happen every few weeks. The race tightens or widens or simply continues on exactly as it's been, and some pundit or reporter declares it a staggering humiliation for the burgeoning world of election quants. ( Randy Stewart /Flickr) Niall Ferguson took his turn at bat in early September.…

Hurricane Sandy was barreling towards the coast and the news reports were grim. This would be the worst storm to hit the Northeast region since, well, maybe ever. A confluence of factors—it was slow-m

The noxious “legitimate rape” comment by Todd Akin, Missouri congressman and Senate candidate, has me once again pondering a simple question: Why do any women vote Republican? The Republican establishment rushed in to pressure Akin to drop out of the race — something that he refused to do — in part…

Photographs by Andrew Tolson Michael Cobb, 39, an English professor at the University of Toronto, also teaches in the university’s Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. He’s the author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence and now of Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled, a…

A Measure of Change President Obama in the Oval Office with Thomas E. Donilon, left, the national security adviser, and John O. Brennan, his top counterterrorism adviser.Credit...Pete Souza/The White House WASHINGTON — This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies:…

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It was a drizzly Wednesday afternoon, and the central holding lot at LaGuardia Airport was packed with six dense lines of yellow cabs feeding into the airport taxi line, stopping and starting according to some inscrutable algorithm. Nicole Benman, a thin brunette in a light blue T-shirt emblazoned…

Opinion Young men joined the march from the Selma to Montgomery, Ala., organized by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in March 1965.Credit...Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos WHEN African-Americans go to the polls next week, they are likely to support Barack Obama at a level approaching the 95 percent…

@SilentHistory A real village of silent people (but only for haloween): http://t.co/rGdCv3xa

Such a powerful essay on New Yorker's support of Obama. "A democracy cannot lay off its citizens" http://t.co/yxkSycbv

A few days ago, I participated in a debate with the legendary antiwar dissident Daniel Ellsberg on Huffington Post live on the merits of the Obama administration, and what progressives should do on Election Day. Ellsberg had written a blog post arguing that, though Obama deserves tremendous…

I cannot satisfy culpability to the degree required by an American court of law, but here are the facts of the cabal’s first — and most insidious — plot. The weevils descended on New York City’s once-esteemed Radio City Music Hall on February 25, 1981, and, in a night of untrammeled soul-pillage,…

Gray Matter IF we are reminded of anything this election season, it is that America is a house divided against itself. The anger and mistrust between Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, often seems as bitter as it is reflexive. Most worrisome of all, we have grown so accustomed to…

Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. The novelists I find myself attracted to are those who cannot resist the extra adjective, the additional image, the scale-tipping clause. It feels necessary to assert and celebrate this, for we are living in puritanical times. The contemporary…

Note: As we were finishing off this story about serial killers and mass murderers in China, news broke of a massive manhunt for murderer and armed robber Zeng Kaigui . Yang Shubin looked the part: fat and rich. At nightclubs, he would say he ran a power station and buy expensive drinks. Women…

Punk: An Aesthetic is a beautiful, excellently curated book of punk photographs, zines, posters, album covers, and ephemera. It focuses on 1976-77 but features a broad collection of proto- and post-punk artifacts. As is chronically the case, it gives too much space to Malcolm Mclaren and the Sex…

|6 min read PRINEVILLE, OREGON, IS home to only about 10,000 people but to hundreds of thousands of servers. In January 2010 Facebook decided to build a huge data centre on a 124-acre plot in the high, juniper-pocked desert east of the Cascade mountains. The first building is as long as an aircraft…

"On bad days, I look at our revenue graph." - Travis Kalanick When Uber was forced to shut down its yellow cab hailing service in New York last week, founder Travis Kalanick threw a fit that PandoDaily's Nathaniel Mott described as "downright adolescent... just short of [Kalanick] stamping his…

This week, a DC-based feminist group projected the phrase “rape is rape” onto the US Capitol building. The action was meant to highlight survivors’ stories and bring attention to the way rape is often mischaracterized. The sentiment may seem an obvious one—who doesn’t understand what rape is?—but…

by Roey B Follow @roeybr It has been 5 years since I started simplifying my life. I didn't know I was doing that at the time. I just moved to a new apartment in Tel Aviv, and being extra careful with my money, I decided I will not subscribe to cable TV. I can’t say I avoid it at all cost. I do watch…