A good post here from John Ahlquist and Scott Gehlbach, and another from Michael Tesler here, responding to a rather sensational, oversold post from David Earnest and Jesse Richman, which was greeted with much enthusiasm by those who'll take their justification for voter suppression wherever they happen to...
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But, clearly, she should be grateful to know how many creepy strangers find her sexually attractive! Amanda Hess has more.
Plumer has a good rundown of the complexity of dam building around the world. The world's rapidly growing demand for energy means that every way we can turn the natural.
If only Obama had given one more speech, the Democratic caucus in the Senate would have totally supported a Swedish-style single payer health care system: One of the most interesting examples of the reform effort are the "copper plans" being proposed in the Expanded Consumer...
As you might have noticed, there's a new book by George R.R Martin out today...and it's not The Winds of Winter (the eagerly anticipated next book in the Song of.
As this blog's token Canadian, I suppose it behooves me to comment on the firing of once beloved CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi. Andrea Zanin, Amanda Marcotte, and Sarah Seltzer.
I'd like for this to be the last post I write about Gamergate. I could be being optimistic, but I just feel like we may be saying "goodbye and good riddance" to it soon. Yesterday, I checked the hashtag's activity and the most popular tweets...
It's hardly surprising once you think about it, but you probably don't think about it, so it's worth noting the role slavery had in building so many of our older.
Good times: The debate over inequality often focuses on income, or how much money people earn. But perhaps even more important is wealth, or how much money people have. A.
On October 28, 1793, Eli Whitney submitted a patent for his invention known as the cotton gin. Perhaps more than any technology in American history, this invention profoundly revolutionized American labor. Creating the modern cotton industry meant the transition from agricultural to industrial labor in...
Ah, Saint Ronnie (with an assist from everybody's favorite genteel segregationist, William F. Buckley Jr.): Brack Obama displayed inspiring leadership on Friday. He also promoted public health, fought bigotry, and.
Who else needs Boris Karloff's guacamole recipe?