The inevitable cycle of capitalism continues. Small businesses, designed to have tight community values and reject older ways of capitalism, become the next state of centralized big capitalist development. This time it is with once small urban farms that are growing increasingly larger and more...
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The day after George McGovern's death, we lose another icon of the early 70s left, Russell Means. One of the leaders of the American Indian Movement and one of the.
The premise increasingly shared by pundits: Then suddenly, a couple of weeks ago, Obama's edge with women began to melt away. More than any other group, women have accounted for.
If you guessed "another folk singer" you are incorrect. James Shadid, a federal judge in Peoria, IL has a dream: He wants to start a new law school at Bradley University (h/t LSTB). Now the state of Illinois already has nine law schools, and indeed...
Jane Mayer, invaluable as always, on vote suppression guru Hans von Spakovsky: Congressman John Lewis, the Democrat from Georgia, says of recent efforts to tighten voting requirements, “I thought we’d.
The loss of George McGovern is a tremendous loss for American liberalism and a time to reflect. Joan Walsh has the definitive obituary. Included is a link to her interview.
George McGovern has died. That McGovern suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Richard Nixon is as good example as any of everything that has gone wrong with politics in this country over the past 40 years.
As Jamil Smith's piece once again shows, the only voter fraud going on in this country is by white conservatives attempting to intimidate people of color into not voting.
The idea that Latinos are like a ripe mango ready for Republicans to pick (no doubt they would hire people to pick those mangoes--Republicans don't pick fruit) as soon as.
Yes, Scott Adams's argument from the alleged left on behalf of Romney is risible. But that's just one idiotic argument. Given his ability to string together a large number of similarly dumb arguments, I think I have to give the award to Mr. Buzz Bissinger....
The wingnutosphere is very very excited about Mittens coming on in Pennsylvania, based on a single poll tailored to the specifications of a winger newspaper. And while it's true that.
Shorter Congressman Joe Walsh: "Life begins at conception and ends at birth." Yep, that Joe Walsh. "Family values" in the Republican sense may have content other than "hating women, gays.