In December, Congress passed and President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act. Included in the bill was a bunch of new national parks. A couple of them were the traditional big nature parks that come to mind when you think of national parks, such...
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Area conservatives discover that Sarah Palin's speeches are randomly assembled collections of resentful non-sequiturs, and are shocked that Matt Drudge takes possibility of lazy grifter running for president seriously.
Under existing practices, it takes four votes for the Supreme Court to grant cert, but five to issue a stay. For Charles Warner, this procedural issue turned out to be.
Of course it could pay $15 an hour. It just prefers its workers living in poverty. At least it provides helpful advice on how to live on the minimum wage. From the report: This paper considers the extent to which U.S. fast-food businesses could adjust...
There hasn't exactly been a dearth of terrible argumentation today, but here's one more example for the case files - and it's a doozy. According to Noam Scheiber, author of.
If I wrote an op-ed that said my ideology created policy preferences that might lead to the execution of the rich but, hey, we have to make trade-offs, I would.
So Greece had an election today, and the results are pretty impressive: Most exit polls are looking like Syriza will have an absolute majority, which is pretty damn rare in Greek politics. Going to be very interesting to see what comes out of this...
With the Trans-Pacific Partnership likely headed our way in the next few months, journalists and pundits are already weighing in. There are some smart takes. Not surprisingly, one of those.
Unlike Noam Scheiber, I don't have a problem with Bill DeBlasio emphasizing police violence against people of color. Scheiber would rather see DeBlasio become an economic populist and unite the.
It's not always easy to get fresh basil if you don't live in the right area, but oddly enough you can order it from Amazon. There are two problems with a that 1.) it's Thai basil (which is lovely but has a distinctly anise flavor)...
This is a guest post by Paul Adler, lecturer at the Harvard History and Literature program. He received his PhD in history from Georgetown University in 2014. Paul's dissertation, Planetary.
Like most of you, I spend my Saturday nights watching silent films. Title cards like this one from Children of Eve are one reason. It's almost as if directors from.