The American justice system--where rapists who shared the pictures of the woman they raped with friends can get off with a slap on the wrist and the outraged young woman they raped faces jail time because she tweeted their names. Seriously, this is one brave,...
Author: Erik Loomis
The Martin O'Malley for president in 2016 train picks up steam. Official Beltway approval! If David Brooks writes a column about him soon, you know he's the golden child.
Remarkable piece by Jeff Passan on the horrendously sleazy underbelly of Dominican baseball and its exploitation of young children.
It'd be easier to sympathize with the Cuban government over the idiotic U.S. embargo if it wasn't for its equally stupid ban on Cuban baseball players actually making money for their labor, thus forcing players to choose between seeing their family or making a better...
Thanks New York Times. I always wondered how those poor plutocrat women with babies manage it! It's so hard being a billionaire! I'm glad you are focusing on the right.
If this doesn't destroy the reputation of Tony Robbins and hopefully every other motivational speaker/New Age faith healer/grifter in America, what will? Fire officials said 21 people at an event.
The great journalist has passed. It's also a good time to replay his classic obituary of Christopher Hitchens.
I'm glad that Rick Warren, America's Pastor (TM), responded to the Colorado tragedy with such grace and class. He did what any good American would do--connected the shootings to teaching.
Bill McKibben lays it out for us--climate change is the greatest problem of the 21st century by enormous levels of magnitude. If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado.
Glad to see Andrew Cuomo take advantage of the Colorado tragedy to release a long-awaited letter about his ties to the casino industry. That's the kind of politician cynicism that just warms the heart. Via
The Culinary Union in Nevada has threatened to sit out the 2012 election. This could be a big deal. The most powerful labor union in Nevada, with deep roots in.
No? It was scorching hot and dry, even if humid? Hard to imagine why, given that this week's drought update shows the nation in officially the worst drought of the.