In 1985, I took the first trip of my life. We drove from Oregon to Minnesota for a family reunion. For me, at that age, this was exciting. As we drove east on I-90, we stopped in Butte, Montana. There, I saw the Berkeley Pit,...
Month: December 2016
There are many roots of Trumpism. We are just beginning to figure all of this out. In coming decades, assuming historians are still allowed to practice in fascist America, there.
Is this year ever going to end? A scene from Alfonso Cuaron's fantastic but ever-less fantastical film Children of Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VbR6AM0ft8
But Hillary Clinton's propose minimum wage hike fell below an arbitrary number, so really Both Sides Do It: President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary, according to people familiar with the decision. Mr. Puzder, chief executive of CKE...
Goody: Donald Trump plans to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency — a pro-industry, anti-regulation pick that suggests big, big changes could be in.
this is bullshit. https://t.co/WKDT9G0bB9— deray mckesson (@deray) December 8, 2016 Nobody wants to admit it, but @realDonaldTrump's early moves look a lot like @POTUS's https://t.co/Zli21EWD4C— POLITICO (@politico) December 8, 2016.
Donald Trump seems incapable of tolerating criticism from anyone, which is a disturbing personality trait in a soon-to-be president of the United States: Chuck Jones uses a flip phone, so he didn’t see the tweet. His friend of 36 years called him Wednesday night and...
It's that one special December day we look forward to every year: the hater's guide to the Williams-Sonoma catalogue: As always, there is nothing rich people love more than eating.
Ohio's General Assembly just can't get enough of that sweet lady-hating legislation. Ohio legislators passed a “heartbeat bill” Wednesday that bans abortion after a fetus’s heartbeat can be heard.
My New Republic essay on how environmentalism needed to get in touch with working-class concerns came out on the day that protestors forced the Obama administration to reroute the pipeline away from the Standing Rock reservation. That was a total coincidence. But the aftermath of...
"I applaud how these hard-working salesmen met their quotas!" If you were wondering why I listed AT&T v. Concepcion as one of the very worst Roberts Court decisions, here you.
This is part 2 of a series of 3 posts by Jameson Quinn, based on a pre-election poll run by electology.org and GfK research. Part 1 introduced the poll and.