Any interesting news in the wingnuttery world today? First to Maryland: A homophobic Maryland lawmaker has admitted to being drunk when he accidentally crashed his boat into a boat full of children. Maryland delegate Don H. Dwyer Jr was drinking with another man on his...
Author: Erik Loomis
On this date in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded. Led by A. Philip Randolph, this labor union became the most important civil rights organization in mid-20th.
Ta-Nehisi Coates's essay, "Fear of a Black President," is probably the best essay on this country I've read in 2012. It's hard to even know what to excerpt here. Of.
This is the kind of politician that really makes one respect southern state legislatures: State Sen. Jim Summerville, of Dickson, was removed as chairman of the Senate’s higher education subcommittee after sending an email stating he didn’t “give a rat’s ass what the black caucus...
The gun industry's response to the call for stricter gun laws after mass murder after mass murder (see today among others) is outrageous and awful. Lawmakers are proposing, among other.
Outstanding J. Hoberman essay in The New York Review of Books on Chris Marker and his amazing films. Must read of the morning.
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 vote for him. Does anyone in Las Vegas care about this issue? Denver? Phoenix? Not...
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.
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 a fine line between supporting a political candidate and sacrificing professional credibility in service of...
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.