The Chinese appetite for wild meat and medicinal products derived from wild animals is wiping basically every animal of size out of Asia and Africa, including something as small as the pangolin.
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Evidently, Yugoslavians of the 50s were nuts for what they thought was Mexican music and fake Mexican bands sprung up across the nation. I have trouble seeing how this did.
Shorter Jed Perl: Ezra Klein and Nate Silver are killing American art. As Roy says, the essay is not merely pretentiously incoherent but is written it a level of abstraction.
The oil industry might admit that climate change is happening but it, along with coal, is more responsible than anyone for making sure that the U.S. does nothing about it. So I really love it that oil refineries are now asking for government bailouts. An...
Andrew Ross' position in this debate at Truthout over Israel and Palestine bothered me because he calls for the American labor movement to support the BDS movement. Although I personally.
Shorter Jonathan Adler: A case whose result would cause millions of people to lose health insurance coverage, with the substantial amount of pain and suffering that would ensure, hardly seems.
I'm intrigued by the number of pundits who previously professed strong support for Likud's policies are experience a crisis of faith this time around. (Prominent examples: Linker, Sullivan, Chait, Klein.) Don't get me wrong, this is a very welcome development--the fewer "what else can they...
About two weeks ago I pledged to go on blogging hiatus and try to ignore the Internets in order to vacation with my family. However, while traveling south from Colorado.
The more unpaid interns who sue profitable companies taking advantage of the system to exploit labor without paying them, the sooner this system of exploitation will end.
In response to this bit of BothSidesDoItism, Krugman is directly on point: OK, this is grotesque. Rick Perlstein has a new book, continuing his awesomely informative history of the rise of movement conservatism — and he’s facing completely spurious charges of plagiarism. How do we...
America's most astute political analyst has taken some time off from his busy schedule of trying to prevent neighborhoods less affluent than his own from having libraries to identify the.
While I'm not at all questioning the terrible state of infrastructure in the Philippines and how it costs the nation much productivity and thus money, but it's worth noting that.