There are two more special elections tomorrow, for House seats in Florida, including a Republican leaning seat that, based on the typical D swing, might be a real pickup opportunity for Democrats. But there’s another election tomorrow that has much more significant consequences for progressive and environmental policy outcomes, but will likely receive little national […]
Month: April 2018
“Who dis?” –Maureen Dowd I suppose most intelligent people unfortunate enough to read Maureen Dowd’s latest excrescence will focus on the latest round of “Donald the Dove
When I write about trade, globalization, sweatshops, and the need for international labor standards, many commenters ask “well, what can I do?” Here’s something. A Nelson nursing stu
Zora Neale Hurston is one of the greatest literary and anthropologist treasures in American history, despite her dying completely forgotten and in poverty in 1960. Her 1931 novel Barracoon is finally being published for the first time. It’s based on her own oral histories with the last survivor off the last slave ship to enter […]
I am going to have a bunch more points to make about full employment policy in the coming days and weeks. For right now, I want to build on Steve’s excellent post from earlier to link to this Ha
Karl Marx was born 200 years ago next week and his ideas are very much back in the mainstream, as capitalism’s massive failures since the fall of the Soviet Union that led to a global Gilded Age
While I didn’t want to step on Erik’s big moment, last week’s massive flood of articles on the idea of a job guarantee absolutely attracted my interest, as someone who’s just finished a book about the history of job creation programs (more on that soon, once I hear back from UPenn Press on the publication […]
The brutal silencing of Kevin Williamson, which he has rightly been decrying from various elite media outlets, is aptly summarized by the Wall Street Journal: 🙄🙄🙄🙄
This is the grave of Preston Sturges. Arguably the greatest comedic director since Chaplin, Sturges was born in 1898 in Chicago. His mom was an artist-type and pretty eccentric. She left her husband w
A psychologist friend who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s has this to say about the sordid imbroglio now playing out regarding Michelle Wolf’s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner: At this point these political roasts are a bad cultural relic. The complaint used to be that they illustrated too much coziness between […]
AHCA is capitulating and isn’t backing up Michelle Wolf: While the debate rages about what comedian Michelle Wolf did or did not mean by specific jokes in her White House Correspondents’ Dinne
Just saw Avengers: Infinity War. Liked it more than I expected. Here are Steve’s thoughts. Here are Abigail’s. Fill this thread with spoilers.