Yglesias recently reminded us on Twitter of this Eric Martin classic describing the ratchet effect leading to massive blunders: Step 1: How can the President not at least condemn [Regime X] publicly for its abhorrent actions? A public condemnation is the very least the President can do. It...
Month: August 2013
Hmmm..... Things are looking up for Delaware’s Dogfish Head. Not only were recently voted America’s best craft brewery over at the Daily Meal, there are also murmurs that a sitcom.
Oh dear: A special spirit day at Oral Roberts University took a tragicomical turn last week when a bald eagle released into the school's Christ Chapel by a professional handler.
I click on over to Roy's place every day. I swear to Satan's testicles, every other post is about "Duck Dynasty." This is not Roy's fault: he covers the wingnut beat...and apparently this show is powered by nothing but clean-burning wingnut fap-power. The conservative world...
Recently, I enjoyed listening to these two songs: What do they have in common? Well, they are both celebrations of Black beauty. These songs resonate with me a crazy amount..
I'm sure the timber industry is glad it retook its historically appropriate title America's most dangerous job. An excerpt from my book manuscript draft, part of which explores the history.
Matt and I have had our share of arguments over how to create a better life for working people, but I mostly endorse his statement about Guaranteed Basic Income. The minimum wage typically gets debated in terms of econometric studies about disemployment impacts. But the...
At the Diplomat, I ruminate on some parallels... In short order, the United States may go to war against Syria in order to send a message about the use of.
Gabriel Winant's long-form book review of Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. A brief excerpt: People, too, suffered the violence of abstraction. Over.
It wasn't easy to sway his party away from the increasingly strongly held Republican principle that poor people shouldn't have health care, but Snyder did it: It took two votes and eight hours of mostly closed-door politicking and vote wrangling, but the state Senate approved...
The fact that Jefferson Davis played a role in giving the Civil War its name and that the name is a product of the losers writing the history of a.
As it becomes harder and harder to find a decent job and achieve The American Dream, I find stories of Bootstrappin' It become more ubiquitous and more irritating. What are.