At the intersection of our hyperactive 24-hour news cycle media culture and the long-term effects of environmental inequality lies what the post-colonial literary scholar Rob Nixon calls "slow violence." Nixon argues that the long-term cumulative effects of climate change, toxic dumping, deforestation, and other environmental catastrophes...
I would like to withdraw any suggestion/implication that Darron Thomas may have been better in any way than Marcus Mariota in critical road games. By the way, Kenjon Barner is.
Let's check the sure-to-be-fascinating election coverage at Trainwreck Media: On a conference call this afternoon, Dick Morris predicted a Mitt Romney victory... Wait, what was that? ...conference call...Dick Morris Really,.
Today is the day that was supposed to set the terms on which Pac-12 and the SEC would be decided. The SEC has mostly held serve; if LSU wins at home they'll likely knock Alabama out of the SEC championship game, and (probably) out of national...
The idea of putting a statue of Christopher Hitchens in a British park is enough to make me choke on my shawarma. At least someone is standing up to what.
On the latest installment of Foreign Entanglements, Matt and I talk War on Statistics: We also talk about what the foreign policy wonk space look like if Romney wins, and why.
The emerging story about Jimmy Savile really is quite remarkable in a horrible way: The confidential file, compiled from 2007 to 2009, contained witness statements and “significant and solid evidence,” according to a former senior officer with the Surrey Police, a force outside London that conducted...
I admit I've been holding off on this because I made the same mistake as the functionalists who assume that if things get bad enough the U.S. will just have.
Since the contest to parody syndicated columnist William F. George went so well, the Wiseacre Society at the Columbia School of Journalism held a follow-up requesting parodies of over-the-top winger.
Friedersdorf is right about this. The public editor's admonition to Silver -- who, if I understand correctly, isn't even a staff writer -- is silly on its face. But it's doubly silly because there was a real and important point behind it: namely, that Joe Scarborough...
The Labor Department released its final pre-election jobs report a little over an hour ago. This was never going to have more than a marginal effect on the election this.
(1) The Washington Post Magazine has a good story on the law school crisis, full of statistics which will be familiar to many LGM readers, but remain too-little known or.