The long-term unemployed are doomed to poverty by Republicans who will not pass any bill extending unemployment benefits. This sort of Republican governance advances their program to recreate New Gilded Age, sending people into grinding poverty in order to serve the interests of the 1%.
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You mean ending prohibition doesn't lead to massive spikes in crime and other conservative horror stories of what happens when you end the war on drugs? Wow, who could have.
If you have the right connections and the right kind of worldview, like Robert Kagan, being disastrously wrong about everything is never a bar to getting a cover story to.
Thank you John Roberts and Republican statehouses: The failure of some states to expand Medicaid is leaving a quarter-million veterans without health insurance. Many assume that all of the nation's veterans are entitled to health care through the Veteran's Administration, but that's not the case;...
is the name of an important new book on a topic the author, Joe Carens, played a major role in bringing to prominence in political theory. His 1987 article begins.
Another Decoration Day, another day to remember the Union crushing southerners committing treason to defend slavery. Two best tweets of this Memorial Day: The creation of Arlington National Cemetery is.
There's a long-standing myth repeated, among others, by the Obama Administration, that FDR hung Herbert Hoover out to dry after the 1932 election, refusing to help the president try and right the economy so that it would be extra bad by the time he took...
Human Rights Watch just released a powerful new report on the abuse of child labor on American tobacco farms. Children as young as the age of 7 are working on.
On May 26, 1924, the doors of the United States closed to most immigrants as President Calvin Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924. The law set the yearly quota.
A couple of quick notes: I've closed comments on my last post. Some little rage-monkey with a ridiculously misogynistic blog showed up and started posting links to his He-Man Woman Hater's clubhouse with the backwards "s," and I'm just not gonna give him a platform....
Like the absurdly low OSHA violation fines that give employers no incentive to fix safety problems on the job, the low fines for corporate polluters are just a drop in.
I understand that CNN is a business and thus decides to provide Americans a month of wall-to-wall coverage of the Malaysian Air flight. So I suppose I also understand that.