The gun industry's response to the call for stricter gun laws after mass murder after mass murder (see today among others) is outrageous and awful. Lawmakers are proposing, among other things, to limit firearm sales to one per person per month; to require background checks...
Author: Erik Loomis
Outstanding J. Hoberman essay in The New York Review of Books on Chris Marker and his amazing films. Must read of the morning.
The thing about Romney basically declaring the Sagebrush Rebellion agenda his official policy on public lands is that it doesn't attract a single western voter who wasn't already going to.
Kristina Rizga's piece at Mother Jones on her experiences in a supposedly failing San Francisco high school is just fantastic. Following a Salvadoran immigrant who saw some pretty horrible stuff back home, Rizga shows how dedicated teachers and administrators created a positive learning environment in...
On August 23, 1927, the state of Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrant anarchists by the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for the murder of two men in a.
I guess I always assumed that most economists were political hacks hiding behind academic credentials. I don't have a problem with academics looking to influence public policy. But it is.
This is incredibly stupid, even for Oklahoma. OKLAHOMA CITY (WXYZ) - Last week the principal at Wilson Elementary in Oklahoma City elementary school made 5-year-old Cooper Barton turn his University of Michigan shirt inside-out. News 9 in Oklahoma city reports the boy's mother is now...
I like Tom Philpott's work at Mother Jones, but this piece connecting Americans' disposable society and clothing with malnutrition around the world had one point that bothered me. I think.
The Natural Resources Defense Council has released a paper detailing the grotesque waste of food in the United States and suggesting common-sense plans to reduce this waste. Food is simply.
Every time I listen to the old Tex Williams song "The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel for Single Girls Burned Down," I always think the relevant politicians are modern Republicans. The hypocrisy seems so perfect. I prefer the Hank Thompson version of the song.
Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg summarize the problems with journalists writing history: We have to fight mediocrity as well as plagiarism – the two are more closely related than you.
For now anyway. A flash poll in Missouri showed that despite Todd Akin's insane statements about rape, he still leads Claire McCaskill 45-44, according to a poll by Public Policy.