So I get my weekly e-mail update from The New Republic today. The top two featured articles are: 1. Laura Bennett watches an episode of Girls and reads a Tumblr, proceeds to make ridiculously broad generalizations about people in their 20s. 2. Chris Matthews on...
Author: Erik Loomis
This paper demonstrates that since 1948, manufacturing jobs have consistently risen during Democratic presidencies and have declined precipitously during Republican administrations. As the authors point out, some of this is.
The Economist decides to hide a tasty anti-union nugget inside an essay theoretically dedicated to some sort of radical centrism. The priority should be a Rooseveltian attack on monopolies and.
That's cool that Criterion is releasing Wim Wenders' dance movie from last year. Who knows, it could be good. Though when was the last time that Wenders really did an excellent movie? Wings of Desire? I mean, Buena Vista Social Club is good but that's...
As reported on Up with Chris this morning, Mike Elk has an important story out on how the Koch Brothers are trying to influence workers in the companies they own.
If you've never seen this cartoon by Chuck Jones from Looney Tunes and produced by the United Auto Workers in support of FDR's 1944 re-election, do yourself a favor and.
Like Chris Bertram, I have to take exception to Alex Gourevitch's characterization of the environmental movement as a bunch of Debbie Downers who dismiss the concerns of the developing world. As someone whose professional work critiques the history of environmentalism's interaction with working-class people, I...
On this date 520 years ago, Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the island of Hispaniola Bahamas while looking for Asia. This is the most important event of human history in at.
If it's news that Michael Vick owns a dog again, is it also news whenever serial rapist Ben Roethlisberger talks to a woman?
Ta-Nehisi Coates is correct. The attacks on Lena Dunham as the ultimate purveyor of white privilege in the arts are utterly bizarre. This isn't to say Dunham doesn't benefit from white privilege or shouldn't think of casting non-whites in her show, but she hardly benefits...
This Henry Wiencek piece at Smithsonian on Thomas Jefferson's dark side has half-perplexed me, yet the reactions show why it is so necessary. The piece essentially argues that Jefferson was.
I am quite happy that President Obama has created the César Chávez National Monument. Although we are in a moment of much needed Chávez revisionism that begins to take apart.