I assume many of you are already reading Fallows, but if not and you're interested in the subject his work is essential. Update [pc]: Per USA Today: The homes of both the pilot and the co-pilot were searched on Saturday, and a flight simulator belonging to...
Reminder: I'm doing an FDL Book Salon this afternoon at 5pm, EDT. Here is my intro to the political aspects of the argument made in Grounded. Hope to see everyone.
Three salient takeaways from Phillip Longman's excellent piece explaining why Texas is not the model for economic development that Republicans would like to think it is: Economic growth in Texas.
The first thing I noticed when reading this Gallup poll of what concerns Americans is how low environmental issues and climate change are on the list. The second thing I noticed is how Republicans are concerned primarily with resentment and fear while Democrats are concerned with...
Ever more bizarre... Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia announced on Saturday afternoon that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 left its planned route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing as the result.
It's a stupid question, and whether intentionally or not asking it is rape apologia.
I don't need to read any of these children's books to know Rush Limbaugh deserves the Children's Choice Book Award for his no doubt outstanding magnum opus, "Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans." I think you know you need to force...
Yesterday, the Senate finally reached a deal to extend unemployment benefits (with the extension applied retroactively.) Whew. Since the parties are now essentially indistinguishably neoliberal on economic policy, I assume.
Mike Elk's long piece on southern white masculinity and the defeat of the UAW in Chattanooga is well worth your time. There's a long history in the South of working-class.
Bruce Ackerman just released the third book in his We the People series on American constitutionalism. Very roughly, the argument he's making is that the Reconstruction and New Deal eras should be seen as establishing new constitutional orders (although the new constitutional order established by the...
If there's one thing I learned when the gun nuts attacked me in late 2012, it's that conservatives take the specifics of language very seriously and abhor violence. That's why.
US News has just published data on class of 2013 law school graduate debt. Matt Leichter points out that an unusually large number of ABA schools -- 14 out of.