The richest 1% now hold more of the nation's wealth than any time in American history going back to the keeping of such statistics in 1913. The previous high was 1927.
Month: September 2013
The UN consistently chooses the most conservative predictions about the effects of climate change in order to try and mollify climate change deniers. This has the effect of muting the.
I noticed, when clicking through to a link to the National Review for reasons that now escape me, that you're now greeting with an ad asking for rubes subscribers with.
You make the call. It's a stunning turn of events that could change everything on Syria -- if it pans out. Facing the threat of a U.S. military strike, the country's leaders Tuesday reportedly accepted a Russian proposal to turn over its chemical weapons. The...
I want to be offended by this, but honestly I can't get past my confusion. One thing I know is Adam Carrolla must be behind it. Speaking of this vs..
I will never write a better story, or a better headline, or even a better URL. I'm really tempted to go out on a high note.
Shorter Glenn "More Rubble, Less Trouble" Reynolds: "George W. Bush's disastrous decision to invade Iraq based on farcically dishonest exaggerations of the threat it posed would not have harmed the international standing of the United States if it wasn't for the meddling people who were...
On September 10, 1897, Luzerne County sheriff deputies slaughtered 19 unarmed coal miners striking outside of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The strikers, primarily German, Polish, Lithuanian, and Slovak immigrants, were fighting for.
If there's anything worse than trying to construct a grand theory out of random personal anecdotes a la Naomi Wolf, trying to construct a grand theory out of random personal.
There is no argument as stupid as the one that says if liberals don't like it, why don't they move to another country. Inevitably, such statements are used against people trying to make life more just for all people in America.
First day of class lazy blogging... Pierce on David Barton. Lane Kiffin is a dismal failure. Fortunately. Excellent post from Steve Pearlstein on how the cult of shareholder value came.
Interesting take on the relationship between legacy admissions to colleges and tax policy in the New Gilded Age: Yet, curiously, the Internal Revenue Service does not treat alumni donations as.