In December 1863, rumors abounded that John C. Breckinridge, Southern Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1860, traitor, and Confederate general, had died. The New York Times was not sad: If it be true, as is now positively declared, that a loyal bullet has sent this...
This is dumb: Ahead of a Swiss referendum on the country’s plan to buy 22 fighter jets from Sweden, a report raised concerns Sunday that a US-made communication system onboard.
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 to Poland plus Patriot batteries and appropriate ground support and protection. Russian generals and even Putin...
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.
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 national press will, if the 'Cats manage to win it all, undoubtedly refer to them as...
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.
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: It’s a flawed model that promotes the economic interests of a very few and at the...
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!.