Just because you are a police officer doesn't automatically mean you support the racist killing of black people by your co-workers. There are some Bunny Colvin types out there. Including in St. Louis. But the official disapproval of standing with people fighting against racist law...
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A reader sent this to me, to which I give thanks. This is the cover of the February 12, 1898 issue of Harper's. Thanks to Google Books, the greatest invention.
Being poor is horrible for so many reasons. Among them is that life's little inconveniences for the non-poor can be utterly devastating. Getting sick and missing a couple of days.
As I discussed awhile ago, the teaching assistants at my alma mater, the University of Oregon, were discussing going on strike over the university's refusal to provide them paid sick leave. In response, the university threw academic integrity out the window and threatened to allow...
This isn't the most important topic, but rather than make this point again and again in comments I thought I'd make it here. Before that, read Weigel and Fisher and.
Richard Pryor on police killing black people with choke holds.
This is Roy's beat, but his rundown didn't cover Dreher, whose blog I've found myself lurking on lately for reasons I can neither explain nor defend. Dreher starts off sounding more or less sane, decent, and human, calling the non-indictment "deeply, deeply disturbing" and approvingly...
Well, this is not promising: The irony is that the end of TNR as we know it comes less than three weeks after the 30-year-old Hughes--who had the good fortune.
If you were prime minister of India, how would you celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bhopal, the worst industrial accident in world history? If you are Narendra Modi, you try.
On December 5, 1894, Alabama repealed its child labor law in order to convince the officials of the Dwight Manufacturing Company, a textile corporation, to move its mill operations from Chicopee, Massachusetts to its state. Dwight did this, settling in Gadsden. This incident is both...
First, Ian Millhiser on the Supreme Court decision that made it much easier for police officers such as the one that killed Eric Garner to escape legal sanction: Yet the.
Interesting. A few points: Evidently, the magazine's tradition is a mixed blessing. Ta-Nehisi Coates has been running through some of the lowlights on his Twitter feed, and you know many.