Month: January 2019
I’d say the media’s collective decision in 2016 to make the Democratic candidate’s compliance with information security best practices is looking as sound as ever: Jared Kushner̵
With Sara Nelson, head of the flight attendants union, calling earlier this week for a general strike to end the shutdown, I have a piece in The Atlantic discussing the history of general strikes in t
Economic populist and enemy of the out-of-touch American elites Donald Trump explains that not getting paid is no big deal even if you’re living paycheck to paycheck: In an interview that aired
One data point in the global reversal of democracy was the Thai coup of 2014, which brought at least a temporary end to the ability of the Thai people to make choices over whom they wanted as their le
I want to take you back, perhaps in the Wayback Machine, to the lost age of 2013. If we can open the creaky vaults of our memories, we might recall that 1,138 workers died to make your clothes and clo
We are well past the point of saving the planet in any way that keeps much of its ecological integrity or species. We are at the point that we can, at best, triage the climate to make things as least
The fourth season of The Trump Show is betraying signs of serious deterioration. For example, today’s episode led off with an appearance by the sort of cartoonishly evil and clueless billionaire
Leah Litman has an excellent post about the revelations that the Trump administration lied to the Supreme Court about its intentions to help secure a favorable ruling in Jennings v. Rodriguez: The thi
- Well don’t trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer
- LGM Film Club, Part 73: You Are On Indian Land
- George Atiyeh
- E Pluribus Something
- Donald Trump with a law degree
- Trump’s COVID catastrophe
- Big 10 Conference: Nothing is more important to us than the welfare of our serfs
- This Day in Labor History: September 16, 2004
- The man who wanted to be on TV
- Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln