In light of Obama’s press conference today and the reactions from the commentariat afterwards: Where was the baying for accountability from the punditocracy when torture at Abu Ghraib was revealed? When the existence of secret prisons in Europe was revealed? For that matter, in August of 2001 when Bush told a CIA briefer he’d “covered …

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Hey, sports fans, John Feinstein has a blog! For the non-sports fans, he’s the guy who’s written nearly a dozen non-fiction books about sports in America, including A Season on the Brink, which recounts a year on the sidelines with Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team, and A Civil War, a story of …

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