...can, in fact, be celebrated without celebrating treason in defense of slavery: Paisley wants to know how he can express his Southern Pride. Here are some ways. He could hold a huge party on Martin Luther King's birthday, to celebrate a Southerner's contribution to the...
Author: Scott Lemieux
I don't know if I would go quite so far as to say that a "grand bargain" including Social Security cuts would destroy the Democratic coalition. But it's certainly true.
On apartheid, she was, for all intents and purposes, for it: "The Conservative prime minister had dismissed the ANC as "a typical terrorist organisation" and refused to back sanctions against.
There are, if you want to be charitable, multiple ways of interpreting the assertion that "[Chavez has left] the same Venezuela as ever: one of the world’s most oil-rich but socially unequal countries." But none of them are consistent with any known empirical data. Anderson...
The increasing prominence of Rand Paul, the neoconfederate ophthalmologist, proves that libertarianism is going mainstream! All that was necessary was to define "libertarian" as "utterly orthodox conservative Republican."
David Nieporent would like to instruct feminists that they should not worry their pretty little heads about such trivialities as "reinforcing the sexist stereotypes that have contributed to the gross.
A federal judge has persuasively ruled that the Obama administration's disgraceful decision to refuse over-the-counter access to emergency contraception for young women under 18 was illegal. The decimation of the administration's farcical invocation of 11-year-olds is particularly strong, but the entire opinion is well-constructed and...
R.I.P. ...[Erik] In case you need a whole soundtrack of anti-Thatcher songs. [DB]: even more music, with analysis. I think I'd rather be in the UK for this coverage, as.
First-rate reporting by Alana Semuels. Read the whole etc., but the bottom line as a teaser: The relentless drive for efficiency at U.S. companies has created a new harshness in.
I really like the athletic director who comes on at 1:20 of yesterday's SNL skit: I don't want to be unduly optimistic -- if American history has taught us anything, it's that grossly exploitative institutions can go on pretty much forever. But there does, at...
Get your damned gubmit out of Curt Schilling's Galtian entrepreneurship! Providence, R.I. game developer 38 Studios knew it was in dire straits before it moved the company from Massachusetts to.
There is a reasonable response to complaints about the inclusion of a bad Social Security policy in Obama's budget proposal: namely, it comes with a condition (higher upper-class taxes) that.