Sarah Jaffe on the atrocious Andrew Cuomo and his hard work to protect millionaires from taxes. I especially like when Cuomo compares his own fight to eliminate New York's millionaire tax to his father's fight against the death penalty: “My father was governor of this...
Author: Erik Loomis
In an incredibly great piece of public health news, researchers are getting very close to developing a vaccination against malaria. The first study showed the risk of malaria cut in.
One hallmark of Occupy Wall Street has been consensus decision-making. Over the last decade, progressive groups have come to rely on consensus as the primary way they make decisions. And.
Yglesias thinks I said something that I didn't in my post from earlier on school reform: Erik Loomis stands up for teachers by asserting that their professional skills are irrelevant to poor children: ... If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times....
A deadly salmon virus is likely to decimate wild stocks in coming decades. This highly contagious virus, which developed in the salmon farms of Norway, has infected British Columbia wild.
Elisabeth Rosenthal's good piece in the Times on why climate change has fallen off the radar screen has received a couple of interesting follow-up posts, including from Plumer. He points.
In this amusing article naming Tom Friedman "The Bard of the 1%," the real kicker is the last paragraph: It is also worth noting that Friedman implies that the Chicago school system is desperately in need of the reform that Emanuel plans to give it....
Gallup has conducted its first poll on marijuana legalization showing more people favoring it than opposing. Given the seeming inevitability of decriminalization if not outright legalization, I find it somewhat.
I love editors. I say this as someone who doesn't have the greatest confidence in his own writing. I don't always agree with their ideas, but I usually do. I.
I'm not sure if this is a very good idea. I know I look forward to them spreading across Honduras and Nicaragua. Maybe they can sell shirts emblazoned with images of the lifeless body of Augusto Sandino. You can get complete access to our long...
Jessica Valenti savages a heartless misogynist man by the name of Mitt Romney.
A very interesting interview with Josh Viertel, head of Slow Food USA. The piece particularly interrogates the annoying Mark Bittman piece from a couple of weeks ago when he blamed.