One thing about the left is that there's often a tendency to replace policy with slogan. This is OK; it's not really up to people making demands to work out all the details before they make them. That's part of protest politics and it needs to...
It's official: A surge in deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic created the largest gap between the actual and expected death rate in 2020 — what epidemiologists call “excess deaths,” or.
A couple of days ago a Georgetown University law student Billy Berns confronted Lyin' Ted Cruz about the blatant hypocrisy of GOP opposition to legislation to expand the Supreme Court,.
This is the grave of Richard Rush. Born in 1780 in Philadelphia, Rush grew up in one of the elite families of the Early Republic. His father was Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the most important people of the American Revolution. His mother was Julia Stockton...
This is a great piece by Annie Lowrey about the devaluing of labor that is does, in fact, require serious skill: Recently, I was mesmerized by a prep cook. At.
Dedicated to the late great Shock G. https://www.youtube.com/embed/msrq0HjwJUM I am also amused by this blog post noting that Michael Steele looks like Shock G.
It's early, but Biden has most strikingly disappointed immigration activists more than probably on any other issue, perhaps excepting Iran. Yes, he backed off his terrible choice to limit the refugee cap. And his CBP choice is excellent. But it's also clear that immigration is just...
Watching reactionary libertarians try to think through COVID-19 related issues is almost painful: If you’re reading this, you should by now understand vaccinations are useful and what their intent is,.
Here's Greenwald asserting that it would be "tyrannical" to have a Senate slightly less biased in favor of rural white voters, or rules that make it easier to vote: Greenwald:.
That people of color are targeted repeatedly for the worst kind of polluting plants is absolutely 100% an intentional act of corporations and politicians. The Fifth District of Louisiana’s St. James Parish was never exactly a bustling community — but it was still a community.Then the...
I don't remember what the context or the thread was where some commenter called me a "fourth-rate historian." Was it Greenwald? Anyway, I was reading Ezra Klein's interview with Noam.
People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were.