Ukraine

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If you are like me, you know basically nothing about Ukraine and the protests going on there. This was tremendously useful. In part: More subtly, what this campaign does is.

The Bad Incentives of Wingnut Welfare

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You may remember Naomi Schaefer Riley from such self-refuting arguments as "African-American studies is a completely worthless field; for my evidence, allow me to re-type some titles of dissertations I haven't read." Well, on the wingnut welfare circuit no argument is bad enough to prevent anyone...

Equal Rights Are Not “Special Rights”

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Via Sullivan -- who notes that on the odious anti-civil rights bill the National Review is now to the right of the Kansas Republican Party -- one of the moldiest of conservative canards: Laws that create special privileges [sic] based on sexual orientation and gender identity...

Cossacks!

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On February 19, 2014

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19th century tool of Russian authoritarianism, meet 21st century Russian anarchist performance art collective: Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the group tried.

Frackquakes

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The geologically stable state of Oklahoma has experienced over 500 measurable earthquakes in 2014, far and away already a record for the state and it is February. Why? Fracking, duh. Scientists have drawn links between earthquakes and wastewater injection wells used for oil and gas production,...

UIC On Strike

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The University of Illinois-Chicago faculty have gone on strike in protest of the corporatization of the university that threatens what faculty do--our ability to teach and research, the stability of.

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