Author: Scott Lemieux
There is a column in the Sunday Review of the country's most prestigious op-ed section this week. It is entitled "Scaling Wokeback Mountain." The first thing you'll note as that.
As Erik has said, Alex Acosta may well have been able to survive his coddling of pedophiles and their enablers had he been a more aggressive union buster: Mick Mulvaney’s.
I'm not sure it's scientifically possible to build a violin small enough to accompany this story: Jacqueline Sackler was fed up. HBO’s John Oliver would soon use his TV show.
Good piece by Jim DeRogatis on another serial sexual predator who was shielded and enabled by an array of powerful people because there was money in it: The new federal.
Above: why aren't Dems trying to appeal to persuadable voters like this? This seems sensible: Elizabeth Warren has an immigration plan. Here are the highlights: Decriminalizes unauthorized immigration and returns to.
This is quite simply an ongoing human rights catastrophe: When Vice President Pence visited a migrant detention center here Friday, he saw nearly 400 men crammed behind caged fences with.

The New Republic has reached DEEP into its nostalgia file and brought us the astonishing return of Dale Peck. Before we get to the insane stuff, let's have some fun.
Anna Merlan had the unfortunate task of listening to a lot of Glenn Greenwald's favorite podcast recently, and makes an important broader point about how the kidding-not-kidding move is one.