This commercial is getting heavy rotation during the Olympics coverage. Its social theory is that Americans live in multimillion dollar houses because they work harder than the latte-sipping denizens of various European welfare states. Yes it's "only" a car commercial. (I can practically see the smirk...

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.

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Cossacks!

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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 to perform under a sign advertising the Sochi Olympics. Say this about Vladimir Putin--he is a...

Frackquakes

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On February 19, 2014

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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..

UnityAmericansElectFriedman04081216!

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A history of predictions about the coming emergence of a third party, often from people who are paid to write about American politics despite apparently not knowing much of anything about the subject. I would suspect that the correlation between these predictions and predictions of brokered...

UIC On Strike

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On February 19, 2014

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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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