Who could have guessed that energy companies would wildly exaggerate the economic benefit pipelines bring to local communities! Here are the tax dollar promises TransCanada promised South Dakota counties and what they are actually paying: Marshall County: $937,804.50 promised; $286,280.98 actually paid; Clark County: $1,369,565,98...
Author: Erik Loomis
A good Chris Fan piece at Hyphen asking a question that has plagued social movements for a long time--why do solidly progressive politicians end up siding with forces of order.
People are complaining that Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss" isn't telling the whole story about the convicted murderers it portrays. Herzog has long eschewed the idea of "truth" in his.
Lesson: Regardless of his conflict of interest because his wife is a Republican operative, George Will is an equal opportunity hack, promoting all mouthbreathing right-wing ideas with aplomb.
More than a little dispiriting that Obama is creating broad exemptions for religious groups to not provide free birth control in their health insurance plans. Congressional Democrats are rightfully outraged..
OK, what the deuce is going on here. From Yglesias' twitter feed, where he notes "Evidence that Obama has a shot at winning Wyoming and North Dakota." Yeah, you wonder..
It's pretty depressing that a law intended to oppress brown people has to affect a white person to make headlines, but that's America. A German manager with Mercedes-Benz is free after being arrested for not having a driver's license with him under Alabama's new law...
The Republican Vision of America's Future Not that this is surprising, but that he would say it so openly suggests how brazen the Republican Party has become in eviscerating the.
Rather than 2 discrete posts on OWS, it makes more sense to combine them. First, I really don't care whether OWS is losing popular support, as one poll suggests. While.
There's a been a bit of buzz across the blogosphere in the last 24 hours supporting Hendrik Hertzberg's call for an Alexander Hamilton movie. Of all the Founders’ lives, Hamilton’s was the most garishly cinematic. Consider these elements: born in the West Indies (the film...
I gave an interview to a newspaper journalist the other day who wanted some information about Occupy Wall Street in the context of the history of American social movements. One.
This Times piece on Republican Senate candidates floundering seems awfully hopeful to me, but given that the Republicans blew three pickup opportunities in 2010 thanks to nominating extremist candidates (DE,.