Your must-read for May 1 is Jacob Remes' essay on the history of May Day and its meanings for the present. An excerpt: Yet in the United States, with some exception, the workers’ tradition of May 1 died out. Partially this was because the Knights of...
I don't have too much to add to Greg Sargent's take on the "Jimmy Carter would have given the order" Romney claim, but just to summarize: 1. The mission that.
Reading the profile of Robert Caro Erik discussed earlier, I was immediately struck by this: Caro can tell you exactly how Moses heedlessly rammed the Cross Bronx Expressway through a.
Jon Chait's dissection of Paul Ryan is essential reading. Before getting to the heart of the article, there's another point I'd like to emphasize. You remember James Stewart -- using the same legendary reporting skills that caused him to accuse Hillary Clinton of committing a felony...
On April 30, 1894, Coxey's Army, a rag-tag group of unemployed Americans, marched into Washington, D.C., demanding federal jobs for the unemployed. Articulating ideas that would be accepted by New.
Using control of the agenda to force the opposition into unpopular votes doesn't have much of an impact on elections at the presidential level (although a little more at the.
Great stuff. Except for the part about Cobb entering the stands to beat a man who had lost his fingers in a printing press.
I referenced it briefly last Friday, but I have a column up at the Guardian about the potential for the Roberts Court to push the "federalism revolution" to much more.
How many shows have reached such outstanding heights in the 5th season as Mad Men has done this year, episode after episode? The last 3 episodes especially have been just.
And as an addendum to Paul's post yesterday, it's pretty easy to talk about the benefits of a retirement age of 74 when your job is to put on a bow tie and pontificate about things you may or may not know anything about. Give Will...
Shorter Paul Ryan: When it comes to Ayn Rand, take the zombie-eyed granny starving, leave the atheism. The scene where everyone who was once guilty of an act of altruism.
A couple of weeks ago, I slammed United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts for attacking the Environmental Protection Agency. I have a piece up at Alternet exploring this issue in.