I'm obviously happy to see Ken Griffey Jr. elected to the Hall of Fame -- here's a good roundup of the highlights of his Seattle career. His injuries robbed him of most of the second half of his career, and yet he was still one...
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As I recently noted, Peter Beinart's Atlantic Monthly cover story married a plausible argument (the American electorate is shifting to the left) with an insane argument (the next Republican president.
Miners coming out of mine shaft, Virginia City, Nevada, 1867 Backlist asked me to submit a list of ten books on U.S. labor history I would recommend for a broader.
Updated with actual results Since I don't see why Farley should be the only front pager who gets to make wildly inaccurate predictions, here's my guess as to what percentage of HOF voters will put various players on their ballot: Griffey: 96% Actual: 99.3% Sets...
I have resisted commenting on the Bundy occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge so I could gather my thoughts on what is an important topic to me. That this.
Sasha Abramsky makes the argument that maybe California voters have finally had enough of the impact of Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot measures that decimated the state budget and set.
Was 2015 the year women moved significantly toward something like equal to men in the sporting world? Zirin makes the argument. In many ways 2015 could not have ended with a moment that was more on the nose. Serena Williams was named Sports Illustrated...
The plurality opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey observed that "[t]he ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by.
Jesse Singal has an interesting essay on Alice Dreger's recent book Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activsts, and the Search for Justice in Science. Singal argues that a conservative = anti-science/liberal=science.
One of the greatest. R.I.P.
From the government's federal student aid webpage: The U.S. Department of Education may place institutions on a Heightened Cash Monitoring (HCM) payment method to provide additional oversight of cash management..
Obama's gun control speech today was, for whatever it's worth, excellent. Substantively, the proposed policies probably won't move the needle much, which isn't Obama's fault but that's the situation we're.