The Times' Upgrade

The New York Times has replaced the goddawful William Kristol, whose tenure as a columnist was mercifully truncated a while back, with The Atlantic Monthly's Ross Douthat. This seems like a good call and is a serious upgrade in intellectual heft and ideological seriousness.

Past Time

Take a trip back in time as The Atlantic endorses Abraham Lincoln and argues that Truman and the Democrats can win in 1948.