Two of the most important social scientists of the 20th century, whose work remains highly illuminating in the 21st, died this week. First, the Nobel-prize winning...
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None of this is surprising, but it's still terrible: The Trump Administration released new rules Tuesday that will hugely increase the number of undocumented people who are targeted for deportation..
As the Trump administration seeks to implement precisely what he said he would do and deport every undocumented immigrant in the country (although somehow I think the Irish undocumented immigrants.
Above: Idiotic bullshit I have stated several times that the DNC race is an overheated attempt to relitigate the primary at great damage to the party. It barely matters who the head of the DNC is. The idea that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was the greatest enemy...
The consensus is that Alexander Acosta is a less horrible choice for Secretary of Labor than Andy Puzder. But that doesn't mean he is good: Even though Acosta is a.
I award this take 10 Baylesses and 20 Horowitzes: If you're an American liberal, as opposed to a professional ratfucker of elections on behalf of the alt-right, you may be.
This piece on automation in the Permian Basin oil fields is telling for both why companies want to automate all their jobs and why this is disastrous for working-class Americans. A few bits: In the land where oil jobs were once a guaranteed road to...
Five years ago this month I gave a talk to about 100 Stanford Law School students, with a professor or three in the audience as well. Among other things I.
Roxane Gay, as you would expect, hits a moon shot: In canceling Milo’s book contract, Simon & Schuster made a business decision the same way they made a business decision.
I've been mildly confused and dismayed by the speed with which dark musings about "the deep state" have found their way into mainstream political conversation. I've been relieved of the need to write something about this by this excellent column by Rafael Khachaturian at Jacobin,...
Milo has lost his book deal and been disinvited to CPAC. Apparently if you're down for harassment campaigns and doxing and are rabidly misogynistic and transphobic you can still.
So two hunters (not just hunters but hunting guides) shoot at each other, lie about it and blame undocumented immigrants "ambushing" them. The punchline: Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller cited.