Quick reminder that my CSPAN2 BookTV appearance is this evening at 7:45 pm eastern time so DVR it or whatever you do. Or you can watch it on the website later. Also, quick reminder that I'll speaking at Big Idea Books in Pittsburgh at 1:30...
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What I'm reading lately, public transit edition: Jarrett Walker has a thoughtful, inconclusive post on the issue of transit agency integration (reflecting on the excellent SPUR report on Bay are.
GamerGate was a months-long distraction for me. As.
Birmingham, Alabama is 73 percent African-American and of course a history of some of the nation's most notorious racial violence. The Birmingham News now has 0 black reporters.
One doesn't generally expect to side with Andrew Cuomo against Bill de Blasio. But de Blasio's apparent openness to his police commissioner's terrible idea to tear up the Times Square.
...is, as Helaine Olen observes, also a war on women: Social Security is rightly viewed as a program that provides economic security for all Americans in their old age. But.
Who do you think Donald Trump reminds Alabama voters of? "Donald Trump is telling the truth and people don't always like that," said Donald Kidd, a 73-year-old retired pipe welder from Mobile. "He is like George Wallace, he told the truth. It is the same...
A Friday evening link to one of my very favorite songs of 2015.
Scott Walker, author of the book-like product Unintimidated, declines to either repudiate or reaffirm his support for ending birthright citizenship. In fairness, stating policy positions hasn't really been working for.
Good on the Gulf Restoration Network for suing the Environmental Protection Agency for not doing its job to regulate the fertilizers and other chemicals that have created the huge biological dead zone where the Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Everyone knows this...
Above: the ancestors of today's anti-immigrant Republicans. As this nation is going through one of its occasional freakouts about immigrants, it's worth looking at how the nation has dealt with.
Donald Trump is so ridiculous and so destroying Republican chances to win in 2016, I'm almost convinced he's some sort of Democratic plant produced by the most brilliant political strategists.