The Public Editor calls for systematic change in the light of the second massive botch job from Apuzzo and Schmidt: She’s right. Erik Wemple of The Washington Post, who wrote early and often on this all week, noted that the story “set fire to the...
Author: Scott Lemieux
These pics of the @MastBrothers show how quick the transformation from bros to beards was https://t.co/1nXXKjeKru pic.twitter.com/HJGaQNRANm— Nick Zukin (@extramsg) December 16, 2015 This is one of those cons where.
Speaking of voting rights, let's return to the Golden Age of American Politics when there was a real liberal in the White House and everyone in American politics favored single-payer.
To return to a favorite subject, the amount of money sophisticated investors throw into hedge funds continues to astound me: The average hedge fund has gained just 0.3 percent this year, according to HFR’s weighted composite index. That is enough to outpace the 0.75 percent...
This seems essentially right: This moment, this election, these years represent the death throes of exclusive white male power in the United States. That the snarling fury and violence are.
Completely botch an important story once, shame one you, completely botch an important story twice, shame on your editors for continuing to publish you.
I put the latest assault on voter rights to reach the Supreme Court in a broader context: Which brings us to the even bigger problem with the theory: In most cases, the effect of the rule change would be to overrepresent white voters and underrepresent...
H.A. Goodman is a national treasure, and he has a HOT TAKE too scorching for Salon: Today's public relations spin won't work, especially since you're reading this online and Americans.
You will be surprised that the argument that racial minorities should be kept out of selective colleges for their own benefit fails to withstand empirical scrutiny: Yet, I find that.
I found this profile of Mickey Kaus to be quite entertaining. You have to like a story with a satisfying narrative arc: And there is Kaus, 16 years later, still in Venice, earning basically nothing, and both totally isolated and deeply in tune with an...
I've thought for a while that Cruz was going to win Iowa, and evidently this does nothing to dissuade me. It's a long way from there to the nomination, but.
"You have got me there. Old Adam is as useless as tits on a boar." The felony corruption in the New York state legislature of the week: U.S. Attorney Preet.