Salon has dug up yet another random hack to get in on the "if you're an affluent white guy, there isn't a dime's worth of difference between Clinton and Trump" racket: Anecdote: There is a little lunch club in my village, guys who gather for...
Month: May 2016
Now this is certainly interesting. The leaders of two of the nation’s biggest, most powerful labor unions — the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County.
Last week, when I reviewed Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton, one of the key points I hoped I made was how Beckert connects the exploitation of cotton upon the peoples.
My latest at the Diplomat looks at how the US planned its strategic nuclear campaign in East Asia in 1959: A recent collaborative project between the Future...
You might think you know commentarion efgoldman, the resident Trumpeter against Trump. But how much do you really know? Is he a Bach man or a Yamaha fan? Silver.
I am agnostic-to-positive about the DH (truth be told, I like the status quo in which each league has a different rule, in part because I like the non-uniformity. I.
The people who just want to be left alone to discriminate against people in peace, of course. The Justice Department notified Gov. Pat McCrory in a letter Wednesday that the state’s House Bill 2, which restricts transgender bathroom access and...
Haven't done one of these in a few weeks. Here's some interesting articles, album reviews, and tidbits. Country music humor is almost universally terrible as comedy, from "Uncle Josh" routines.
I am not at all surprised that he nailed it. "Be confident in your heritage. Be confident in your blackness," Mr. Obama told a crowd of 15,000 gathered at Washington,.
The tobacco companies persist in employing children to harvest tobacco. Not in Malawi and China. In Virginia and North Carolina. Various North Carolina farmers partnered with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company illegally hired children under 13 years old to harvest their tobacco crops, a report released...
LeeEsq in comments the other day pointed to this story in the New York Times, about a controversy over curricular choices in South Asian history. The dispute centers on whether.
Because it is so despised by right-wingers, there's a temptation to defend Common Core education standards. But as with so much of the education reformers' agenda, in practice it is.