Shorter Jed Perl: Ezra Klein and Nate Silver are killing American art. As Roy says, the essay is not merely pretentiously incoherent but is written it a level of abstraction so high that it renders serious engagement impossible. At least the right-wing version of this cliched screed uses some extraordinarily dated concrete examples — […]
Month: August 2014
The oil industry might admit that climate change is happening but it, along with coal, is more responsible than anyone for making sure that the U.S. does nothing about it. So I really love it that oil
Andrew Ross’ position in this debate at Truthout over Israel and Palestine bothered me because he calls for the American labor movement to support the BDS movement. Although I personally support
It looks as if Ukrainian forces are making slow, measured progress against pro-Russian separatists. If that’s true, this is how I read the rest of the game playing out: Ukraine: The Ukrainian government wants to re-occupy as much of Ukraine as possible, while at the same time forestalling Russian military action and preserving the hope […]
Shorter Jonathan Adler: A case whose result would cause millions of people to lose health insurance coverage, with the substantial amount of pain and suffering that would ensure, hardly seems importan
I’m intrigued by the number of pundits who previously professed strong support for Likud’s policies are experience a crisis of faith this time around. (Prominent examples: Linker, Sullivan
About two weeks ago I pledged to go on blogging hiatus and try to ignore the Internets in order to vacation with my family. However, while traveling south from Colorado with my partner and son last week, I ran across this post by LGM’s Erik Loomis, on the treatment of Central American refugees in US facilities north […]
The more unpaid interns who sue profitable companies taking advantage of the system to exploit labor without paying them, the sooner this system of exploitation will end.
In response to this bit of BothSidesDoItism, Krugman is directly on point: OK, this is grotesque. Rick Perlstein has a new book, continuing his awesomely informative history of the rise of movement co
America’s most astute political analyst has taken some time off from his busy schedule of trying to prevent neighborhoods less affluent than his own from having libraries to identify the real progressive alternative in the 2016 race: On HBO’s Real Time Friday, former presidential candidate Ralph Nader had no problem deciding between two potential 2016 […]
The last redoubt of the Ottoman Empire is under siege: In 1945, Ertogroul Osman moved into a two-bedroom walk-up apartment on the top floor of a three-story commercial building on Lexington Avenue s
While I’m not at all questioning the terrible state of infrastructure in the Philippines and how it costs the nation much productivity and thus money, but it’s worth noting that the decayi