Outstanding J. Hoberman essay in The New York Review of Books on Chris Marker and his amazing films. Must read of the morning.
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
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 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree. Although the two men may or may not have...
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.
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 in principle the article's idea is a good one. Our clothing purchases have skyrocketed in...
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..
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 realize. Journalists doing history tend to be superficial and formulaic. To the historian’s mind, they...
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.
On this date in 1831, Nat Turner, a slave in Southhampton County, Virginia, led the largest slave revolt in the history of the United States, killing 60 white people before.