People write things in the intarwebs. These are some of them: Tom Slee on Uber. Molly Lambert on Paul Thomas Anderson. Why third parties aren’t a solution to anything. The term “gentrification” has become nearly as meaningless as “hipster.” Finally, the New York media addresses arguably the most important scandal of our time: the retired […]
Month: December 2014
It goes without saying, to me at least, that American companies should have no right to receive compensation for their Cuban property seized in 1959. Making corporate claims a major bargaining chip in
An LGM reader writes: I just graduated from law school this past spring, and passed the bar. I applied for a job and completed a phone interview. The actual “interview” portion was very sh
This point from Sarah Kliff’s valuable account of why single-payer failed in Vermont is crucial: In a way, the fact that America hasn’t taken serious steps to control health spending makes it particularly hard for the country to move to a single-payer system in the future. Our health-care system costs $2.8 trillion annually, about 17.7 […]
This is a good piece on Marshawn Lynch’s refusal to talk to the NFL media. The journalists are furious at him for this. And the piece gets it right–it’s not because they expect to he
I neglected to mention this last week, but let me say a quick word lauding the Obama Administration for extending workplace protection rights to transgender people, at least in the public sphere. This
The always valuable Economic Policy Institute has its top 10 charts of 2014. They mostly say the same thing in different ways–there is an enormous crisis in income inequality and wage stagnation that is concentrating wealth in the 1% while leaving the rest of us either stagnant or in economic decline. There are real policy […]
Amanda Hollis-Brusky on the 70th anniversary of Korematsu: In the events leading up to and including the Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu, these safeguards built into the Madisonian machine bro
Tomaksy: And now we can’t even acknowledge this plain truth? Astonishingly, it appears we can’t agree on it. Right around the time de Blasio spoke, Marist was in the field with a poll asking peopl
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Rudy 9/11, ladies and gentlemen: “We’ve had four months of propaganda starting with the president that everybody should hate the police,” Giuliani said during an appearance on Fox News on Sunday
Remind me never to turn on Meet the Press, even for 2 seconds. I do today, or more accurately my wife is watching it because as a Latin American historian who has traveled in Cuba, she is following th