While I didn’t want to step on Erik’s big moment, last week’s massive flood of articles on the idea of a job guarantee absolutely attracted my interest, as someone who’s just f
Life comes at you fast in New York politics: only a few days after my last post, Andrew Cuomo decided to pre-emptively retaliate against the Working Families Party for considering endorsing his oppone
Face front, true believers! In the last entry in this series, I was intending to write about Chris Claremont’s stamp on the mutant metaphor. However, recently I got bitten by a (non-radioactive) dif
Although it’s been widely rumored for months, Marvel only lately announced that the next writer of Captain America will be Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is excellent news for a couple reasons: first, becau
One of the central pieces of the argument for privatization since the 1970s has been the idea that the private sector is inherently more efficient than the public sector, usually because of the discip
In the wake of what was a very satisfying Election Night, I want to talk about one of the less-visible signs of ideological transformations in a party, namely the conversion of former opponents to the
Last time, a slightly desperate conman who’s down one soul, a heavy metal bard in league with the original party fiend, a wild magic obsessive let loose from Fantasy Catholic School, and the one ho
Yesterday saw an interesting parallel in the realm of health care politics, as at the same time that Hillary Clinton was giving an interview with Ezra Klein where she explained why she thought that si