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 not. It just figured it could outsource most of it to India. IBTimes is hiring a...
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 working in extremely dangerous conditions and then people may have died while making what you were...
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.
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 career when she refused. The lawsuit claims she was “a conscientious, hard-working, and successful” journalist over...
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.
"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 not accept Blair’s claim that it was impossible to predict post-invasion problems". "Blair presented the intelligence...
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.
Muslims wondering why the West doesn't care when they die instead of white people in Paris and Brussels. Of course the answer is that most white people care primarily about.