The Guardian asked me for one and, as Bill James once said, "I have learned from experience that these people do not appreciate a straight answer -- to wit, how the hell would I know," so I made one. I'm the outlier on the...
Month: June 2012
This week's decisions forbidding states from applying mandatory life sentences to individuals under 18 have been well-covered elsewhere, but I had a couple points to make. First, from the opening.
Jonathan Martin has a pretty good piece at Politico about why the Democratic Party has gone AWOL in the class war. As the Republicans look to return us to the.
As you can tell from the fact that I wrote one post in May (albeit quite a good one), wrapping up the school year took the majority of my time and energy, so some stories slipped through the cracks. Let me rephrase that: some stories...
The Texas Republican Party announced its 2012 platform. This is otherwise known as the standard Republican policy narrative circa 2015. It is very special. So special that no one can.
Teresa Sullivan has been reinstated as the president of the University of Virginia. This is an unquestionable victory for those of us interested in truly public higher education that is.
Selections from this afternoon's in-box: You, who are on the public payroll, should take your camping gear and go camp out south of Tucson for a week. I’m certain you couldn’t hack it and you would be wishing you had a gun for protection. You,...
(Clearly another installment in this never-ending series.) My previous post, on "The Wheel," discussed in great detail the relationship of Don Draper to his past via the fading photographs of.
I've gotten some pushback in various social media about my argument that Antonin Scalia is wrong to assert that the state of Arizona has an inherent "sovereignty" over its borders.
Yglesias summarizes the horrible federal court injunction that retroactively applies new rules for airline organizing, rules created during last summer's ridiculous FAA standoff when Democrats caved on yet another labor issue to pacify Republicans, to the current American Airlines campaign to stop a unionization campaign...
Shorter Petula Dvorak: CATFIGHT!!!!
On this day in 1894, the American Railway Union, headed by Eugene Debs, called a nationwide boycott in solidarity with their striking members at Pullman, Illinois. This action turned a.