The response of Tennessee Republicans to the UAW organizing campaign with Volkswagen approval in Chattanooga lays bare just how much the Republican Party hates organized labor: A state senator said today that future financial incentives for expanding Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant may hinge on how workers vote...
When you think of men and the 19th century, you probably think of beards. Large, ridiculous beards unseen again in American life until the early 21st century. Moreover, the beards.
Thanks a lot Scott. I have a piece in Salon about the affluenza defense, class stratification, and unequal justice under the law.
A very important point: A few minutes after he signed the Civil Rights Acton July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Hubert Humphrey, who had led the fight for its passage in the Senate, with a copy of his signing speech. On it, the president...
(1) A very significant thing happened at the ABA Section of Legal Education Standards Review Committee meeting (I can already see readers' eyes glazing over) on Friday, which hasn't yet.
I'm so old I remember I remember when Christopher Caldwell was supposed to be a reasonable, moderate, thinking person's reactionary. At least the last of those still applies: Western critics.
As part of some homework so I could write about Philip Seymour Hoffman when I'm ready, I tweeted today that the Alfred Molina drug deal sequence in Boogie Nights was the best scene in an American movie in the last quarter century. A reader asks a...
Wow. Michael Sam, an All-American defensive lineman from Missouri Tigers and the Associated Press' SEC Defensive Player of the Year, said that he is gay in interviews with ESPN's "Outside.
Something we discussed in comments this weekend came up in the last Jambaroo of the year. Magary made the point more directly a couple weeks ago: Anytime a team like.
Richard Overy's The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 catalogs the strategic bombing campaigns of the European theater of World War II. Overy covers the two best-known campaigns-- the Blitz and the Combined Bomber Offensive-- in detail, but also examines the lesser known campaigns in the Mediterranean and on...
Last night, Oklahoma State's star basketball player Marcus Smart went into the stands and shoved a Texas Tech fan. The initial reaction was typical--Smart's a bad apple, he's blowing his.
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: "This new Democratic argument about how it's good that people will no longer be dependent on their current employer for insurance is, apart from the fact that.