Interesting. A few points: Evidently, the magazine's tradition is a mixed blessing. Ta-Nehisi Coates has been running through some of the lowlights on his Twitter feed, and you know many of them: The Bell Curve, racist cover defending welfare reform, comprehensively dishonest anti-health care reform...
Month: December 2014
A central argument of Out of Sight is that when people see horrible things, they are outraged, and thus corporations do everything possible to separate consumers from production so that.
Dahlia Lithwick and Irin Carmon have good roundups of yesterday's oral arguments in the UPS pregnancy discrimination case. Evidently, anyone bringing a gender discrimination case before the current Court is.
I toyed with the idea of titling this entry "GamerGate Stew," but considering how much grossness I've subjected you all to lately, I thought I'd be pushing my luck. Let's forget about the Internet's Shittiest People ™ for a moment and talk about something lovely--a...
Albert Burneko is speaking some truth. Because the American justice system is not broken. It's working just as intended, to use violence against people of color. This is a system.
Chicago just passed a minimum wage increase that will take it to $13 in 2019. Quite reasonable. Business owners are not happy. Shockingly, as business owners have said with every.
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Elizabeth Kolbert's review of Naomi Klein's new climate change book. Kolbert had her problems with it, primarily that Klein doesn't offer a concrete path before. I was interested in this precisely because I think struggling for solutions...
I wonder what the true progressive alternative in 2016, America's greatest champion of civil liberties Rand Paul has to say about Eric Garner's killer going unindicted? Rand Paul blames Eric.
As New York's cretinous governor scrambles to appear to be troubled by today's outcome, let's not forget the role he played in today's miscarriage of justice.
A grand jury in New York on Wednesday decided not to indict white police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July choke hold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, according to two law enforcement officials. During the fatal encounter July 17 Garner raised both...
Greg Grandin calls for a moral movement equivalent to abolitionism in favor of undocumented immigrants. He then makes the case for reparations for undocumented workers. What’s missing from the calculations.
Tom Harkin has pretty much joined the Rahm/Schumer/Frank bandwagon: “We had the power to do it in a way that would have simplified healthcare, made it more efficient and made.