Please just stop. It's abundantly clear where my sympathies rest on this issue, but everyone needs to stop scrutinizing low-quality cell-phone videos and determining, definitively-to-their-mind, whether Alton Sterling did or did not have a gun. The problems are larger than this incident and whether he had a...
You may have heard that the International Business Times has laid off a whole bunch of editors and reporters. Is IBT cutting back? Is it in trouble? No, of course.
The Chilcot Report is out and, as you would expect, it's devastating: • There was no imminent threat from Saddam Hussein. • The strategy of containment could have been adopted.
Some excellent points from Anil Dash here: [HT to Anne Thériault for putting the Tweetstorm in a more convenient format.)
Above: Huang Mingwei Did anyone blow up their fingers this weekend? Well, if you did or if you didn't, know that the fireworks you enjoyed were made by Chinese laborers.
We are well into Democratic Party post-primary healing mode. There are still diehards who were determined that the FBI would charge Hillary Clinton and allow Bernie Sanders to take the.
Thanks to commenter Howard for sending along a couple of interesting stories regarding what's happening in the US economy to workers with different educational credentials. This WSJ article looks at the long-term decline in the labor force participation rate among prime working-age men (the LFPR is...
Hmmmm: Gretchen Carlson, a longtime Fox News host, has filed a lawsuit against Fox Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes alleging that he made unwanted sexual advances and then sabotaged her.
Like many of you, I watched the video of the Baton Rouge police killing Alton Sterling. There's no two ways around this--it was a flat out execution. I would say.
On July 6, 1924, members of the Philippine Scouts, a division of Filipino troops in the U.S. Army occupying the Philippines, refused to drill to protest their poor pay and unfair treatment. This would eventually lead to their court martial. This incident shines a light on...
"Chilcot says there was no need to go to war in March 2003." And . . . "Blair “overestimated his ability” to influence US decisions on Iraq." "the inquiry does.
As I am desperately trying to write the draft of my book on strikes, one of the things I've had to sacrifice is writing book reviews here. They take too.