I'm not going to address arguments I've seen here and there that Jonathan Butler's hunger strike was dangerous/inappropriate/unfair/alienating. Since someone trots out these arguments every time any member of any underprivileged group says "Hey, could you treat me like a human being and not...
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Things Written Down.
Submitted avec comment: "In reflection of recent feedback, the copy we used in our recent catalog was inappropriate and in poor taste..
Chart shown is the second part of a 2 page chart that begins on p. 28 of the 2015 State of Homelessness report (.pdf). The rate of homelessness for veterans.
He hasn't said much about it, but Erik Loomis has written a book. No! Not that one. This one: On Thursday, December 3, we'll discuss Introduction: The Scourge of Capital Mobility. I'll shoot a couple of questions to Loomis a few days before. However, if...
One of the fun things about being a journalist is I don't have look for RW shouty types. They come.
[Update - Wolfe has resigned. Thanks to Peterr for the heads up.] College football players don't get paid, but the people who do make money from University of Missouri's football.
"OK, we know what we want to call ourselves, but what is everyone else called?" Is apparently a very difficult question to answer, even when the same people who ask the question create the answers. Below: The WaPo's cleaned-up version of the Census Bureau's more...
[Note: Description of police violence below the RM line.] Two deputies and a nurse have been sentenced.
And now you must too. Two thoughts about the ad, which is set to be visited upon released in several urban markets today: We can put to rest any debate.
November 18th will mark the 11 year anniversary of the day I ended my grandmother's life. I did it with an ink pen. To sign documents to give to hospital permission to remove her from life support, to give permission to harvest her organs. My...
In honor of an intriguingly rare defender of African-Americans, I have revised the first few paragraphs of this TPM article to make it post-racial: African-American Dr. Ben Carson's black business.
My guest post was going to be a few weeks from now and about medical care, but this is happening: BuzzFeed and.