Every once and a while, as a Mariners fan you might allow yourself some measure of optimism. It's Memorial Day weekend, you're in first place, one of the two other teams you figured would contend for the division has failed to launch, and you have...
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The massive increase in the cost of American legal education has been driven largely by a massive increase in the size of law school faculties. (Student-faculty ratios fell by half.
Normally this sort of thing wouldn't even be worth linking to, but given the current political battles on the left, I will make an exception. I am as big a.
The thing about Trump is that he really is the only presidential candidate in U.S. history who will say literally anything. The danger is that people will take some or all of it seriously, either because some of it touches them where they live even...
This is a good report on the challenge of climate change for the national parks. How important is this? Climate change isn’t the first challenge to the wonders that national.
Conor Friedersdorf interviewed a 22-year-old Trump supporter (white and male, natch). The result is every bit as facepalmy as you might expect. My takeaways: The obsession with the idea of.
This NYT article shows a variety of #BernieorBust rationalizations. One (which, it must be said, Sanders has helped to cultivate with his arrant nonsense about the system being fundamentally rigged against him) is to argue that if not supporting Clinton means Trump winning, it's all...
This interview in which Shaun King explains why The Party Left Him is...amazing: ER: You say in your piece that in 2008 you were an enthusiastic supporter of President Obama..
TIL women don't have childhoods. pic.twitter.com/f9G62NO8hJ — bspencer (@vacuumslayer) May 25, 2016 Did you know that there's a Ghostbusters reboot coming out and it stars four women? Well there is and it.
David Brooks explains Hillary Clinton's problem: Can you tell me what Hillary Clinton does for fun? We know what Obama does for fun—golf, basketball, etc. We know, unfortunately, what Trump does for fun. This idea that Hillary Clinton doesn't have hobbies is silly, easily disproven...
If you want an academic discussion of hipsters and the problem of hipster hate, here's one for you. Mostly it makes good points. All jokes aside, there is a point.
Donald Trump's version of "pandering" is just an excuse so he can surround himself with white men. White men make up about 30.6 percent of the United States population. In.