Over at The Atlantic’s website, the blogger Andrew Sullivan poses an interesting, even gruesome, philosophical argument: If you buy the Bush administration’s arguments that its “enhanced interrogation” techniques don’t constitute torture, why not rape? Sullivan writes:

Raping someone need not leave any long-term…

One way to report earnings.

This is earnings-report season for America’s banks, and lo, what signs and wonders it has wrought.

Goldman Sachs reported $1.66 billion in profits in the first quarter. JPMorgan Chase posted $2.1 billion in earnings. Bank of America,…

After asking that tonight’s “Debate the Debate” party on The Platform be postponed so he could attend a sick cat, Post-Dispatch commentary page editor Eric Mink now has agreed to take part.

Together with John McCain’s decision to un-postpone his campaign and…

My column this week dives into oil and energy, drawing heavily on the delightful work of Lisa Margonelli. She’s the author of the 2007 non-fiction best-seller “Oil on the Brain,” which tracks petroleum from deep in the ground to the…