It's rare that I disagree with Rob Neyer. But I have to push back on his column about Major League Baseball owners deciding to eliminate the pensions of their non-player employees, despite being quadzillionaires who could obviously afford it. One thing I like about covering labor...
This is a weird story, but it totally makes sense that a doctor handing out illegal prescriptions would use this argument: Dr. Gracia Mayard, 61, is accused of distributing oxycodone.
As I noted yesterday, several liberal hawks have argued that while they were wrong about the central justification offered for the Iraq War -- the alleged threat posed by Saddam's.
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... is that Captain Jack and River Song have already arrived, and this is the interior of Oliver Queen's club: If this isn't the nerdiest post ever to appear here,.
An outstanding article about the greatness of "The Weight" and The Band more generally.
This piece on Hong Kong's out of control light pollution is a good reminder of one of the least controlled means of pollution. While maybe it isn't as damaging as water or air pollution, humans have made evolutionary adjustments for night and constant light could potentially...
Michigan Republicans are very special. After passing right to work legislation in at best a marginally legal manner, they are seeking to punish universities who are negotiating new contracts with.
I have a piece at Open Zion on new skepticism about the effectiveness of Iron Dome: Keeping all this in mind, we should take care in assessing claims about Iron.
A helpful guide. But, fortunately, the most egregiously wrong were all held accountable! I think Yglesias has less to apologize for than most war proponents, in that he was a college student rather than a public official or well-compensated professional pundit, and he turned clearly and...
The New Republic has a symposium that includes a depressing number of liberal hawks giving non-apologies. I'll leave Wieseltier's WMD excuses to another post, but two of the examples of not.
Luis Feliz and the immigration advocates trying to eliminate the word "illegal" from our discourse on immigration are absolutely right--the word demonizes human beings and is deeply hurtful and damaging..