We cocky Jacobin secular liberals are used to Damon Linker's moderately culturally conservative concern trolling by now. I must say, however, that this is a twist I didn't expect: The competition for worst president since the early 1930s is pretty fierce. But for my money, Lyndon...
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.
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.
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...
Per this summons, Baltimore Ravens' star running back Ray Rice hit his girlfriend so hard that he knocked her unconscious. (She allegedly hit him first, so she's also being charged.
My new "Internet Film School" column is up. Sample: Typically, romances rely on a small stable of predictable-but-effective techniques that convince the audience it’s witnessing the first, chemical blush of.
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...
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.
David Cameron: David Cameron says he is giving unemployed Britons “new hope and responsibility” by cutting their benefit payments and claims his welfare reforms are part of a “moral mission”.
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,...
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.
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.