Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, on the ouster of the school's president and the behavior of the plutocrats behind the plan. A few tidbits, but you should read the whole thing. Dear Ms. Dragas & Mr. Kington: I’m writing to...
Author: Erik Loomis
Jay Rockefeller deserves major kudos for finally calling out the coal industry for lying to workers and the state that the EPA and environmentalists are costing coal jobs: This EPA.
Michigan Republican legislator Wayne Schmidt: Thousands of women protested when Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown (D-West Bloomfield) was banned from speaking on the House Floor for a day after she.
On this date in 1947, President Harry S. Truman vetoed the odious Taft-Hartley Act, the most vile piece of labor legislation in American history. Sponsored by Robert Taft (R-OH) and Fred Hartley (R-NJ), the Taft-Hartley Bill was a direct response to the explosion in strikes...
Oh for the love of god: Both took time to comment on a major donor's e-mail in which he suggested that university leaders study the way Stanford and Harvard Universities,.
Tonight's entry in our tour of odd historical boxing videos continues with the glorious theme of cat boxing, this time from a bizarre short put out by General Motors in.
More Gilded Age pugilism--except tonight it is boxing cats! The past is a strange place.
Philip Bump has a nice run-down of the important things to look for in the upcoming farm bill/massive subsidization of agribusiness thanks to the incredible power held by rural state.
Neil Munro, briefly famous for interrupting Obama last week since he knew the president wasn't going to take questions, refuses to take questions about his actions.
So on May 11, Scott wrote this post getting after Glenn Greenwald for his endorsement of an extremely insipid Matt Taibbi piece arguing that Romney was really a moderate. Glenn, as you might expect, came charging into the comment thread like a bull in a...
Time to take care of this blog's failure to pay attention to Gilded Age pugilism.
You can always count on Digby to completely tear apart someone like Fareed Zakaria, who blathered on about the need for Democrats to follow the lead of Andrew Cuomo and.