Monica Potts longform is always a must-read, and this is certainly no exception.
Oh, hell. How can the U.S. add muscle in the present Ukraine crisis? The boldest and riskiest course would be to dispatch 50 or 60 of the incredibly potent F-22s.
Your reminder that corporations generally don't like them.
Of all the crimes for which one expects rich white people to have a de facto exception, you'd like to think this wouldn't be one of them: A Superior Court judge who sentenced an heir to the du Pont fortune to probation for raping his 3-year-old...
Let's pre-empt: No one should refer to this Kentucky team as "The Miracle Cats." They are not "scrappy underdogs" in the sense that the term is normally used. Kentucky and.
White people: The differences among religious groups reflect the overall racial and ethnic picture on support for capital punishment. Twice as many white Americans favor the death penalty as oppose.
I should say right off the bat that now that I'm older/wiser/more politically astute than I was ten years ago, that I think the "'The Incredibles' has a kind of icky message" argument is not crazy or wholly off-base. I actually think it has a fair...
The AFL-CIO has produced a report on the impacts of NAFTA 20 years after passage. Although the impacts are probably familiar to you, it's worth a read anyway. The summary:.
Today in Republican vote suppression: Pivotal swing states under Republican control are embracing significant new electoral restrictions on registering and voting that go beyond the voter identification requirements that have.
Oh South Carolina: Earlier this year eight-year-old Olivia McConnell wrote her state representatives to suggest that since South Carolina doesn’t currently have a state fossil, it should be given one! Olivia decided that she needed a legitimate reason to suggest this besides liking fossils, so she...
Updated below Six weeks ago Ray Rice allegedly hit his fiancee hard enough to render her unconscious. Subsequently: On Thursday, Ravens running back Ray Rice was indicted for aggravated assault.
The UAW is continuing to organize the South after its catastrophic defeat in Chattanooga. It is targeting a Mississippi Nissan plant. Unlike Volkswagen, Nissan is fighting the union. The difference.