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Confederacy of dunces

By Paul Campos

In General

On March 25, 2015

I have a piece on the Confederate flag license plate case: What’s most objectionable about confederate flag specialty plates isn’t that some people might mistakenly think that the Texas state government is endorsing the political views of people who display confederate flags (they will likely not commit this error). Rather, it’s conceivable that people will […]

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This Day in Labor History: March 25, 1947

By Erik Loomis

On March 25, 2015

On March 25, 1947, the Centralia Coal Company’s No. 5 mine in Centralia, Illinois exploded, killing 111 workers. This disaster, caused by extremely unsafe working conditions from employers utter

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On Marijuana Policy Reform, Senate to Do What it Does Best: Nothing

By Scott Lemieux

On March 25, 2015

Proponents of the strongest version of the War (On Classes Some People Who Use Some) Drugs ain’t going down without a fight: But the Senate Judiciary Committee is emerging as a serious buzz kill

Grift American style

By Paul Campos

In General

On March 24, 2015

Salon has an interview with Rick Perlstein, in which Perlstein explains how Mike Huckabee’s hawking of some magic beans that purportedly cure diabetes is all of a piece with the intersection of New Right politics and good old fashioned American hucksterism: [O]nline publications like Human Events and Newsmax— which is files and files of their […]

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Racial Thursdays

By Erik Loomis

On March 24, 2015

Look, the Army boys just need a little time to blow off some stress by indulging in open racism….

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We Must Kill the Free Market In Order To Protect It, NCAA Cartel Edition

By Scott Lemieux

On March 24, 2015

Above: A Sponsorship That Must Have Been Given Away For Free Because the Noble Ideals Of Amateurism (TM) This genre of NCAA lickspittlism might be my very favorite. “NCAA players have absolutely

The Development of White Collar Work

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 24, 2015

Longreads.com was not messing around when it chose that name. Sometimes, things are now long reads primarily because the internet makes it possible, as opposed to using the most effective length to get a point across. That’s the case with this extraordinarily long excerpt of Nikil Saval’s new book on the development of white collar […]

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“The Liberal Benghazi”

By Erik Loomis

On March 24, 2015

Richard Cohen, America’s least favorite racist uncle, just can’t help himself, calling outrage over cops murdering black people in places like Ferguson, “the liberal Benghazi.”

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Hillary Clinton and Education

By Erik Loomis

On March 24, 2015

Since she lacks a credible primary challenger, it might be awhile before we know whether Hillary Clinton is as in the pocket of the wealthy education privatizers and Rheeists as Barack Obama. Given he

Somewhere, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Guiliani are Green With Envy

By Scott Lemieux

In General

On March 24, 2015

Arbitrary police harassment of citizens in Chicago is remarkably pervasive: Perhaps the most startling finding of the ACLU report is that during the summer of 2014, CPD conducted more than a quarter million stops of civilians that did not lead to an arrest. When comparing that number of stops to population in Chicago versus New […]

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The Cruz Candidacy

By Scott Lemieux

On March 24, 2015

I don’t think Cruz is likely to win the nomination, but I do think he will play an important role nonetheless: Cruz is a long shot to win the nomination, but he is a canny politician with enough

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Why Tenure Matters

By Scott Lemieux

On March 24, 2015

An object lesson: A former administrator at Chicago State University has accused its president and other officials of firing her in part because she refused their demands that she file a false sexual-

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