Ken Ward has an excellent piece on the media's complicity in the War on Coal narrative to describe the decline of coal jobs in Appalachia. In short, blame it on Obama and the hippies. This is of course absurd because the real reasons for coal's...
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I'm teaching Redding v. Safford School District tomorrow. As many of you know, this was the the 2009 case in which the Supreme Court ruled the strip search of a.
Oh my! I hope everyone had a safe/happy/silly/scary Halloween. This weekend I fraternized with a dragon: And devils: I held an Apatosaurus toe (!!!!): And I made some gargoyles into.
I found this article on the rise of radical ecoprotests in France really interesting because it reinforces my understanding of the nature of developed world protest since 1991 as being opposed to high modernist ideology rather than capitalism or socialism. These protestors seem to have...
Mary Landrieu mentioned the history of racism in the South. Naturally, Louisiana Republicans were outraged that she would do so. Obviously, like all Democrats, Mary Landrieu is the real racist.
On November 2, 1909, the Industrial Workers of the World called a free speech strike in Spokane, Washington. The free speech movements would highlight what the IWW did well and.
Even though Nic Kristof has been shown to be incredibly gullible about child prostitution, that hasn't stopped the Times from letting him promote his insane horror rhetoric: IF prostitution of children is illegal, why is it that we allow an estimated 100,000 underage girls and...
There was a lot of interesting discussion in last week's "is New York New York City + Alabama" thread. Before moving on to my broader point, let me address a.
It doesn't look good, although not entirely hopeless. Sam Wang on how to watch Election Night. And all the best of health to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
I can't believe I forgot about this! While researching a GamerGate piece the other day on 8chan, I repeatedly came across the most accurate Photoshop of Anita Sarkeesian ever, and I meant to recommend it to any reasonably attractive lady -- you have a bit...
I spent my Halloween evening in New Haven, seeing the legendary saxophonist Joe McPhee play with drummer Chris Corsano and cellist Daniel Levin at Firehouse 12. This was amazing and.
I never really understood what Pierre Omidyar was doing with his non-Intercept project, which seemed to involve hiring interesting writers and not letting them write anything. Now we know: Matt.