California refuses to deal with its water shortages in any kind of serious way. It's so bad that even the articles yelling at California about how to take it seriously don't really even themselves because they leave out agriculture, which is far and away the largest...
A reader sends along a link to this Bethany Jean Clement piece in the Seattle Times. Clement, in a refreshing act of journalism against her employer's editorial interests, asks the.
Of the many ways one could react to the Daily Tucker's rule forbidding bloggers from criticizing people who pay Tucker Carlson, this is one of them: Carlson's noisy (and controversial).
Oh, hai, readers. Here are some links for your Wednesday afternoon... Tommy Wiseau, writer and director of the best movie ever made, did a Reddit AskMeAnything session. The results were every bit as beautiful, inscrutable and transcendent as the film he's famous for. Someone tweaked the cover...
Jeb Bush comes out against the federal minimum wage. I believe he's supposed to be the "moderate," "mainstream" option in the Republican primaries...
New York University, supposedly a bastion of education and academic freedom and whose president John Sexton came on strongly against BDS because of academic freedom issues, made a deal with.
This is a followup to an earlier post about the exploding cost of legal education over the past few decades. I'm employing the University of California Hastings law school to illustrate both how much that cost has gone up, and why. The latter question is the...
This report shows just how unsafe working conditions are in the fast food industry. 79 percent of fast food workers were burned in the last year and 58 percent received.
"As ridiculous as my statement is going to sound..." No, doooooooo go on, young futurist.
On March 18, 1871, the French military attacked the worker movement in Paris with the aim of retaking the city for the nation's government. Workers foiled the military's invasion and ten days later they formed the Paris Commune. This socialist workers movement controlled Paris for two...
In the waning stages of the campaign, Benjamin Netanyahu explicitly laid out his vision for an apartheid state. The response of the electorate was...not encouraging: After a bruising campaign focused.
There can be very good reasons to refuse medication for psychiatric disorders, and everyone has the right to determine the course of their own medical care. In addition to concern.