Siva Vaidhyanathan has a good piece at Slate about the absurd firing of University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan. Despite widespread support from the university community, Sullivan was canned last week for reasons that remain unclear, but seem to revolve around her not bringing in...
Author: Erik Loomis
Adam Ozimek says something really stupid: Amidst this conversation, host of PBS’s Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman, repeated a highly misleading talking point, contributing. It’s a claim you’ve probably seen it.
Given the complete dominance of capitalism in early 21st century life, why not turn Karl Marx into a symbol for capitalist excess and the modern exploitation of the working-class through.
Republicans in the Michigan Legislature are more than happy to stick government way up a woman's vagina. But if a state legislator Lisa Brown actually says the word "vagina" on the floor, she must be silenced: Brown's comment prompted a rebuke Thursday by House Republicans,...
It's time to restart LGM's War on Vodka. One of the main generals in this war on inferior spirits is the heroic and delicious gin. A new front has opened:.
Jonah Keri with a very nice piece on the apparent end of Vladimir Guerrero's career. My own Vlad memory primarily consists of watching him hit not one but two impossibly.
Lot of stuff going today. 1. We know that America's plutocrats want to return the nation to the Gilded Age. It turns out that Mexican plutocrats feel the same. Such as Carlos Slim. The world's richest man has some brilliant ideas on how to make...
Jamelle Bouie has an excellent article arguing that progressives' dreams of a demographic majority with the rise of the Latino population is a chimera. Progressives have a vision that endless.
My good friend Michelle Rhee is at it again: Rhee, the former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools and Founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, told the capacity crowd that businesses evaluate.
Republicans truly do care about our troops..... Republican Senators John McCain, Scott Brown, and Susan Collins all support an effort by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, to expand abortion access for military women who are raped. But despite bipartisan support in the...
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Pick up a copy of Redbook. It's the only magazine dedicated to young adults. This is what I believe is known as a rich text.