The killing of two police officers in cold blood is a horrible crime. The idea that people who have protested acts of police brutality or unjustified force are responsible for these killings is absurd. The reaction of people like the Sergent's Benevolent Association and George...
Month: December 2014
Two recent Diplomat columns. First, the results of the Brasilia conference on the future of war: What will the future of war look like in East Asia? A recent conference.
Gregory Wood's Retiring Men examines the intersection between masculinity, work, and retirement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. He argues that the crisis over retirement in a.
Why would I put up footage of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was a world's fair held in San Francisco, celebrating both the rebirth of the city after the earthquake and the opening of the Panama Canal the year before? The real question is...
Real hipsters buy their clothing from Glenn Beck's website.
Businesses are very, very sad because the National Labor Relations Board did not tip the balance of workplace power toward them even further when it ruled for faster union elections..
Conversations... SEK'S LESBIAN FRIEND: Crap -- just realized I won't be able to make your birthday party. SEK: That's fine. I didn't want to play any Indigo Girls songs anyway. SEK'S LESBIAN FRIEND: You were the one who introduced me to the Indigo Girls! Just...
Bob McCulloch is the master.
Shorter Fred Hiatt: "China and Vietnam prove that normalization of relations does not necessarily guarantee freedom. Therefore, we should maintain the embargo of Cuba, which has a superb 50-year track.
Ygelsias is correct here: On November 26, the Obama administration put forward new anti-smog regulations that should prevent thousands of premature deaths and heart attacks every year. About two weeks later, Obama's appointees at the Federal Reserve implemented new rules curbing reckless borrowing by giant...
If North Korea hacking Sony e-mails actually leads to Idris Elba playing James Bond, it will be that country's greatest gift to humanity.
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