Ah, I never get tired of Krugman arguing in print with a pundit who shall go nameless. Let’s call him “D. Brooks.” No, wait, that’s too obvious…”David B.” The NYT policy of not allowing explicit disagreement with other people on the op-ed masthead doesn’t really make sense, and yet I hope they keep it — […]
Month: October 2014
Why it’s almost as if fast food companies are lying when they say they have to keep wages low in order to survive! On a recent afternoon, Hampus Elofsson ended his 40-hour workweek at a Burger K
This is as good a time as any to announce what I think my next book project is going to be, or at least what I am starting to work on. I want to write a new history of the Industrial Workers of the Wo
Yglesias makes a very good point here about the suggestions that Obama lacks “passion”: January 20, 2010 was one of the very most memorable days of my eleven years in Washington. The previous evening Scott Brown had defeated Martha Coakley in a special election to fill the US Senate vacancy left by Ted Kennedy’s death. […]
Admittedly, the allusion in my title oversells the story a bit, but this isn’t good. It seems to me there are two issues here worth disentangling. 1) Is it ethical for researchers to interact wi
On October 27, 1948, an air inversion trapped the pollution spewed out by U.S. Steel-owned factories in Donora, Pennsylvania. The Donora Fog killed 20 people and sickened 6000 others. This event was o
Shorter Thomas Frank: Haha, silly Democrats, dreaming about post-ideological blank slates. Look at Obama — if you completely ignore every accomplishment of his tenure in office, including signing the comprehensive health care reform Truman, LBJ, and Clinton failed to get passed, he’s exactly like Carter. One day, Democrats will have the clear-eyed realism to yearn […]
Damn. Confirmed: Cardinals' prospect Oscar Taveras was killed in a car accident along with hits girlfriend in Puerto Plata. — Dionisio Soldevila (@dSoldevila) October 27, 2014
Interesting on Chip Kelly’s decision to kick the FG on 4th and 1 from the 2 yard line with 2 minutes left against the Cardinals: “Good call!” When it’s in the middle to late 4th quarter (o
In the spirit of allowing you fellas out there to adhere to Gilded Age masculinity or New Gilded Age hipster masculinity, I thought you might be interested in this product. I was perusing old issues of Harper’s a few years ago and the back advertisements were full of beard tonics and the like.
One of the best–ok, maybe the only–good thing to come out of #GamerGate has been the #ActuallyEthics meme. We all know that “ethixxx” has served as a cover for the worst kind o
Murc in comments [combining two]: That’s the flip side, yes. I enjoy pointing out that without the city, upstate New York is basically Alabama…upstate New York is economically impoverished and