Following up on last year's discussion of Naomi Wolf's credulous, implicitly anti-federal power conspiracy theorizing, Corey Robin notes that there remains no evidence that the Occupy crackdown was initiated by the federal government as opposed to our benevolent local overlords. Meanwhile, this thread contains an...
Month: August 2012
In retrospect, Erik's assumption that the Thames walk-off single would be the highlight of the Mariner second half may not hold up. In other news, I no longer feel quite.
First, in Ohio the Republicans couldn't be more straightforward about wanting to suppress Democratic voting, without even a "vote fraud" pretext: If you live in Butler or Warren counties in.
This is the key point in Sarah Kliff's demonstration that the argument that the ACA cuts $716 billion is accurate but misleading: It’s worth noting that there’s one area these cuts don’t touch: Medicare benefits. The Affordable Care Act rolls back payment rates for hospitals...
GQ has an excerpt, or rather an excerpt of an excerpt, from Joe Posnanski's biography of Joe Paterno, which I'm sorry to hear is being published next week. Posnanski had.
Marc-William Palen provides a response of sorts to my connections between the Gilded Age and today, as well as others who have made the comparison such as Paul Krugman. Palen.
A very good piece on the trickiness of Superfund attempts to clean up rivers. Is it better to clean up the toxic sludge at the bottom of rivers flowing through industrial sites, even though it could stir up those toxins in the short term? Or...
For conservatives, Paul Ryan's one possible weakness is that he's not vociferously anti-union enough. After all, he supports the Davis-Bacon Act. He also voted for the auto bailout. But don't.
Get big government out of my grocery store liquor aisle! A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Kentucky law prohibiting grocery and convenience stores from selling wine and distilled spirits.
To the class of 2015, welcome. At this point in the proceedings, tradition dictates that I spend some time elaborating just how amazing and talented each and every one of.
It's not hard to derive an Imaginary Foreign Policy Paul Ryan. I suspect that David Brooks is already hard at work creating the Paul Ryan that He Wishes, rather than.