Will Wilkinson writes about country music and, as is typical when anyone tries to connect it with politics, it's pure projection. Bathing it in the kind of pseudo-scientific data points that prove virtually nothing except for wonky writers' desire to be taken seriously, Wilkinson neither...
Author: Erik Loomis
A few food-related items for a tasty Saturday: 1. Jill Richardson has an interesting piece arguing that the U.S. is exporting its terrible diet and the health problems this causes.
I was going to write a post about the right's odd obsession with Saul Alinsky, a man who has only been tangentially important to the American left since about 1982..
JFK may be a massively overrated president, but for once I'm glad people think he's the tops. Because if there's anything that is going to get Rick Santorum elected, it's telling Americans that JFK makes him want to puke. It's only one data point, but...
A report released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources links earthquakes in the Youngstown area to fracking. Fracking supporters continue to talk of the practice as safe, but the.
In case you weren't shocked enough by Obama breathing the same oxygen as Derrick Bell, Paul Adler (@padlerman) reminded me of this classic. In 2010, North Dakota conservative talk show.
"Ketchup is a vegetable" is sounding pretty good right about now: Sarah Seltzer has a good overview of what is in school lunches--pink slime turned into meat. Technically, it is meat product injected with ammonia that is processed into something theoretically edible. And the meat...
The Republican War on Women reaches Texas on International Women's Day. The Texas state legislature reduced its already meager funding of women's health by 2/3 last October, leading to the.
The Republican war on labor is reaching a fevered pitch in Georgia, where the Constitution is being shredded in order to protect employers from inconvenient protestors. This effort is supported.
While there's a very long time left between now and November and while on the local and congressional level, Republicans may survive, or even take the Senate while retaining the House, the Republican Party and its leaders are doing everything in their power to destroy...
Every election cycle brings back the fetishizing of the increasingly non-existent family farm. When combined with the Republican ardor for bombing brown people who could potentially have weapons of mass.
Amanda Marcotte has an outstanding essay on how poorly the Republican Party understands American attitudes toward women and sex. In part: As for the second one, this is where the.