Matt Taibbi has a comprehensive takedown on of how Wall Street has combined with irresponsible state politicians to steal public workers' pensions. It's the latest iteration of the Wall Street war to increase profits by undermining the working and middle classes. At the heart of...
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You'll be able to read my review of "Felina" later today or tomorrow at ... another place, because I've landed yet another gig. In the meantime, I have a question.
Per Baseball Reference. Rank Player (age that year) Offensive WAR Year Bats 1. Barry Bonds (36) 12.4 2001 L 2. Babe Ruth+ (26) 12.2 1921 L Babe Ruth+ (28) 12.2.
This is a very important point: Failure to raise the debt will force the president to break a law — the only question is which one. The Constitution requires the president to spend what Congress has instructed him to spend, to raise only those taxes...
The great U.S. historian Lawrence Goodwyn has passed. The author of the single best book even written on the Populists, Democratic Promise, The Populist Movement in America (as well as.
It's good to see Europeans following their American comrades and resisting unpaid internships. I thought this quote was a pretty good example of why internships need to be governed by.
Republicans in the House and Senate, in a series of actions unprecedented prior to the first time they did it in 2011, are threatening to blow up the world economy unless the president enacts an agenda that was overwhelmingly rejected by the electorate just last...
Many of our benevolent local overlords have regulations that can cause victims of violence to lose their homes and provide incentives for landlords to violate the privacy of their tennants:.
So the Breaking Bad finale is over, and to decompress I turn to the Patriots/Falcons game on the DVR. This, regrettably, involves Cris Collinsworth saying things: All Bill Belichick does.
In Salon, Drew Foster offers further evidence for my hypothesis that 99% of generation-based analysis is worthless nonsense, and attracts adherents primarily via the (ancient and not generation-specific) process of confirmation bias from people at different stages of life than the generation allegedly exhibiting some...
Bringing his trademark fresh insight to the table, Mark Halperin would like to inform you that no matter what happens both sides will be equally responsible for blowing up the.
Chris Mooney has a rather odd article at Grist entitled "Can We Finally Have a Serious Talk About Population?," profiling a new book on the subject by Alan Weisman. Correctly,.