After yesterday's embarrassment, it'd be nice to think we can just accept the obvious and deep moral and political idiocy of the "Hamilton electors" movement, accept it for what is was (essentially, a strategy to avoid facing reality for a few more weeks) and move...
Month: December 2016
Bernie Sanders, left, speaks with Hillary Clinton during a break at a Democratic presidential primary debate Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester,.
In yet another case of "unsurprising but disgusting," Columbia University responded to the 1602 to 623 vote of its graduate students to unionize by trying to throw out the vote:.
Apparently Donald Luskin and the Dow 36,000 boyz were unavailable: But the emerging cast in Trump’s administration, from the appointment of Tom Price to run the Department of Health and Human Services to the slew of bankers and other millionaires, suggests something different: On domestic...
Above left: the president-elect of the United States of America. Above right: Scott Lemieux, right now, artist's rendering. Amazingly, an anti-democratic mechanism intended to overrepresent the interests of slaveholders has.
A couple of years ago I wrote a long investigative piece for the Atlantic on how Infilaw, a subsidiary of the Chicago-based private equity outfit Sterling Partners, was exploiting the.
Odds that Donald Trump could find Turkey on an unlabeled map? How about Russia? Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was assassinated at an Ankara art exhibit on Monday evening by a lone Turkish gunman shouting “God is great!” and “don’t forget Aleppo, don’t forget Syria!” in...
GOP health care in a nutshell: A Republican congressman outlined the way he would like to see the health care system operate if Obamacare is repealed, as GOP lawmakers are.
This Alex Halperin piece demonstrates both the pathetic response of the marijuana industry to the coming attacks from Attorney General Nathan Bedford Forrest and how that industry represents not all.
Do we need a reality show following a KKK family around? No. Nothing good comes of this. But A&E smells some good ratings. And why would the KKK mind the humanization of their members? Sounds like a good recruiting tool to me! And sure, the...
In my former career as a freelance policy analyst, I did a good deal of research on our nation's Unemployment Insurance system, which convinced me entirely that the major flaws.
On December 19, 1907, the Darr Mine near Smithton, Pennsylvania, caught fire and exploded. 239 people died, many of them children. This was the largest workplace disaster in Pennsylvania history..