Michael Hiltzik on one of the most insidious American corporate activities of the New Gilded Age–moving their official operations abroad to nations with lower corporate tax rates while keeping all actual operations in the U.S. This is called an inversion and it is nothing more than rich people stealing money from the federal government. Here, […]
Month: August 2014
The Republican House vote on the “deport them all” bill last week would appear to be a political puzzle. Not only was the vote obviously contrary to the long-term interests of the party, b
As occasionally hinted over the past year, I’ve been considering a book project built around a collection of Sunday Battleship Blogging posts of yore. This project may finally be coming to fruit
You will be shocked to know that the jailhouse informant telling a farcically implausible story that, sadly, was the best evidence against Cameron Todd Willingham was lying when he said that he wasn’t promised anything by the prosecution in exchange for his manufactured testimony. Let’s also remember that if the man who presided over the […]
…Alabama Representative Mo Brooks. Because Jesus-fucking-Christ what is wrong with you?
At the same time that U.S. courts are limiting the ability of foreign citizens to sue American corporations for their malfeasance abroad, they are facilitating U.S. banking companies to collect debts
Shorter syndicated columnist William F. George: Those stupid Democrats, letting their obsession with race and gender derail the otherwise unstoppable presidential campaign of Sherrod Brown. Republicans don’t believe in “identity politics”; we choose the most qualified candidates for any position, and this candidate should presumptively be a white guy, with the occasional token thrown in […]
Alfredo Corchado has a powerful story of the plight of Central American migrants trying to move through Mexico to get to the United States. Heartbreaking stories about people we should be welcoming in
The obscene use of fertilizer and chemicals leads to algae blooms that make the water supply of Toledo undrinkable. The problem is exacerbated by the non-native zebra mussels that eliminate animals th
Paging William Saletan: An examination of an Israeli barrage that put a line of at least 10 shells through a United Nations school sheltering displaced Palestinians here last week suggests that Israeli troops paid little heed to warnings to safeguard such sites and may have unleashed weapons inappropriate for urban areas despite rising alarm over […]
When Republicans want to send children back to Central America, this is the horror they want to send them back to. In the 2010s, we often look at U.S. immigration policy toward Jews in 1930s Germany,
Right-wing judges have consistently narrowed the use of American courts in recent years to crack down on corporations who engage in extremely egregious behavior abroad that violates human rights. Such