Brian Beutler with a proposal: This week provides an occasion for the U.S. government to get real about history, as April 9 is the 150th anniversary of the Union’s victory in the Civil War. The gene
Anyone who participated in blog comments sections back in the previous decade knows that there was an inevitable response to criticisms of the Bush administration: “Republicans keep winning elec
Rolling Stone has officially retracted Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s story about campus rape following a fair but brutal Columbia Journalism Review report. Jann Wenner’s comments are not terribly
In the aftermath of the Homestead Strike of 1892, the New York songwriter William W. Delaney composed a song by the name of “Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men.” It became fairly popul
This happy glorious holiday sees both the return of Mad Men and Major League Baseball. Let this be the open thread for both. Personally, I have experienced too much disappointment to believe the Marin
Enjoy this 1940 Rural Electrification Administration documentary on the drudgery of rural work before electricity and how REA cooperatives and the New Deal transforms the lives of farmers. Good stuff.
The voters of Kansas elected Sam Brownback governor. Then they reelected them. So now the reap what they sowed: The economic fallout continues in Kansas, where Republican Gov. Sam Brownback recently s
Those are the real underlying issues that need to be addressed in any comprehensive discussion of the extraordinary increase in the cost of higher education in America over the past half century. I ar