In light of the remarkably low tax rates Mitt Romney is paying, this bit from Rick Perlstein's excellent new column seems especially relevant: He's still inauthentic – but with, I think, an exception. Every time he opens his mouth on the subject of capitalism, he...
Month: January 2012
A couple of beverage-related stories this morning. 1. If you didn't oppose fracking the Marcellus Shale before, let the Post provide some really strong evidence while you should: there is.
Josh Eidelson on Jacob Lew, Obama's new Chief of Staff. When Lew was Chief Operating Officer at NYU, he took the lead in crushing the university's graduate student union, which.
When exactly did publisher of racist junk science Adam Bellow allegedly convert from liberal views he never seems to have expressed in public? Eric Alterman investigates: Bellow has made a career of calling himself a former liberal, though just when he was a liberal is...
I would have to agree that this effectively summarizes the Republican position. Restricting unnecessary medical expenses under Medicare -- death panels! Providing health insurance to the working poor so they.
Last week, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka addressed the United Nations Investor Summit on Climate Risk. He made a couple of important points. First: And to those who say climate risk.
As he cruises toward the GOP nomination Mitt Romney can't seem to stop saying things that, besides being intellectually dubious and morally offensive, are almost certainly going to be damaging to his presidential aspirations: Romney has made the “class envy” trope central to his message....
(Yet another one of those posts.) The opening credit sequence in Fight Club is a nifty little reverse-literalization of a common directorial device for representing thought on screen. The technique typically works.
Apparently, James O'Keefe's latest illegal stunt ended up being more illegal than he intended it to be. He only intended to commit voter fraud to demonstrate that voter fraud could.
Freddie De Boer gives us a heartfelt defense of Paul-curiosity: I don't know if that grave was one of the few to be opened and explored. Even now the Indonesian government broadly obstructs attempts to investigate the events of the Year. The "conservative estimate"-- that...
I understand that I have been admonished to not write about such trivialities, but having come across Larry Johnson interrupting his search for the Whitey Tape to give his reaction.
The pay at online journals being what it is, I'm pretty sure Irin Carmon isn't getting paid nearly enough to justify consuming 200+ pages of Caitlin Flanagan in a narrow.