Unlike Noam Scheiber, I don't have a problem with Bill DeBlasio emphasizing police violence against people of color. Scheiber would rather see DeBlasio become an economic populist and unite the poor of all races. Well, I'd like to see that too, but that doesn't mean DeBlasio...
It's not always easy to get fresh basil if you don't live in the right area, but oddly enough you can order it from Amazon. There are two problems with.
This is a guest post by Paul Adler, lecturer at the Harvard History and Literature program. He received his PhD in history from Georgetown University in 2014. Paul's dissertation, Planetary.
Like most of you, I spend my Saturday nights watching silent films. Title cards like this one from Children of Eve are one reason. It's almost as if directors from 100 years ago are speaking to me from the grave. ...This title card is followed by...
I'm a little torn on this: In an attempt to keep a dialogue going surrounding the sweatshop conditions in which so many mass-produced articles of clothing are made, Norwegian publication.
Oh please oh please oh please oh please let this be true: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s warning to “stay tuned” for more corruption arrests after he bagged Assembly Speaker Sheldon.
Pretty much what Murtaza Hussain says here: It’s not often that the unelected leader of a country which publicly flogs dissidents and beheads people for sorcery wins such glowing praise from American officials. Even more perplexing, perhaps, have been the fawning obituaries in the mainstream press...
Mora County, New Mexico, right in the middle of the land grant thefts that led to the rise of Reies Lopez Tijerina and the long-term animosity to outside corporate control.
My latest at the National Interest takes a look at five areas the Chinese military may want to improve: What weapons should China be developing and building right now? There’s.
Thanks to an unfortunate combination of factors, Maryland has elected a Republican governor. They are already getting what they asked for. Larry Hogan has already withdrawn from regulations of phosphorous releases from the state's many poultry farms that protected the Chesapeake Bay from massive pollution. He...
Ernie Banks, R.I.P. He was an icon, and in addition to being immensely likable he earned the status on the field and then some. Like a lot of middle infielders,.
If LGM fails, it will not be because of bandwidth, but because we have the lack of human understanding that can only be forged when someone you say "thank you.