For some reason--perhaps laziness or force of habit, or engagingly alarmist ('new records for traffic misery!') press releases, media outlets across the country dutifully report as fact the whatever new congestion 'study' the Texas A&M Transportation Institute releases. The problems are significant: their approach uses...
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What Kilgore said: Is that the source of all this hysteria? Conservative media accounts of random college speech code incidents and the occasional dumb move by a school principal? Something.
Why can't Orson Welles be brought back from the dead to narrate documentaries? Had to link instead of embed because of the film's privacy settings, but it's a cool documentary.
The horrible killing of the Virginia TV crew has once again shown that a) gun violence is inherently political, b) that the National Rifle Association is a front organization for murderers, and c) that we need gun control, which of course won't happen. But it's...
Ku Klux Klan member, Tennessee, 1868 This is a good piece summarizing the one area of U.S. history that the National Park Service has done a terrible job commemorating, which.
Setting aside her pathetic racial resentment, what's striking about SPD officer Cynthia Whitlatch's account of her unjustified arrest of William Wingate is that even if we take her self-serving account entirely.
Finally. It's long overdue, of course, and absolutely necessary. As a Mariners fan, I suppose I should be feeling, if not joy, at least a sense of relief. Instead I mostly just feel anxious and concerned they'll screw up the next, crucial step--will the organization's...
Probably the most underreported story in American labor right now is what's going on steel. There are more unionized steel jobs in the U.S. than you'd think and a lot.
The National Security Law Journal has published a notable contribution to legal thought. The title, "Trahison des Professeurs: The Critical Law of Armed Conflict as an Islamist Fifth Column," does.
I have a take on the latest Game of Thrones fan-theory about Jon Snow because of course I do. Steven will, no doubt, demolish it in the comments -- but for the moment, inasmuch as hope can exist in Westeros, it's springing eternal.
HE sent me this link. What's wrong with this nice lady? Her generous attitude is positively un-American and frankly it's freaking me out a little. Here's a really really really.
On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, DC. This famous event is of course most often remembered for Martin Luther King's.