What would you call 540 square feet, infested by rodents and roaches in a complex where sexual assault is distressingly common, occupied by ten people? If you're the New York Post editorial board, "too generous!" Again, as a friend says the New York Post isn't...
Author: Scott Lemieux
And we have yet another article wondering why Prime Minister Obama didn't just eliminate the American health insurance industry: So what would be the costs if we had a president.
You know, you have to talk to chicks remembering they're all flighty and stuff: As Republican candidates figure out how to best win over women voters, Iowa GOP Senate candidate.
In response to Erik's post, I think I've mentioned this before but in fact the subject of evaluating managers is the subject of Chris Jaffe's book, which I think is the most impressive work of sabermetrics in at least a decade. Combining cutting-edge empirical evidence...
We start with some bone-standard Republican cruelty: Democratic attempts to extend unemployment benefits for 1.3 million workers were a "disservice" to the unemployed, Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. "I support.
Leaving aside the question of whether the target is justified, what puzzles me about this kind of academic boycott is not only how it's supposed to be justified but even.
Let's start this earlier in the week: On the signing of Jacoby Ellsbury, Neyer wrote that "[i]f you're a fan of any other American League East team, you should be exceptionally happy." While I'm not a fan of another AL East team I am an...
Whether at home or abroad, American conservatives (starting with reasonable, moderate, thinking man's reactionary William Buckley) are only capable of opposing apartheid in retrospect. At which point the process of.
Perhaps the judgment that there was insufficient evidence to charge Jameis Winston was correct. But like the lengthy delay in pursing the case (although obviously not as importantly), I can't.
When I say that a lot of people got spun about the similarity between the Affordable Are Act, I don't mean it as a criticism; I got spun myself. What is striking, though, in both that thread and the follow-up, is how committed anti-ACA lefties...
Wow. More later; I'm not sure what I think yet. It's obviously an overpay, and the last years of the contact will be ugly, but at least Cano is an.
Tom Scocca's defense of snark as a justified response to smarm is, you know, brilliant, necessary, stuff like that there. A teaser: Over the past year or two, on the.