I like Tom Philpott's work at Mother Jones, but this piece connecting Americans' disposable society and clothing with malnutrition around the world had one point that bothered me. I think in principle the article's idea is a good one. Our clothing purchases have skyrocketed in...
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LGM's crack investigative staff has obtained exclusive footage from the Graham Spanier press conference:
As a companion piece to some of Paul's recent work, Maureen Tkacik has a terrific piece about a few random anecdotes being parlayed into student loan debts being made uniquely.
The Natural Resources Defense Council has released a paper detailing the grotesque waste of food in the United States and suggesting common-sense plans to reduce this waste. Food is simply too good to waste. Even the most sustainably farmed food does us no good if...
As is often the case at the beginning of the school year, even secondhand and samizdat copies of textbooks become difficult to acquire. But if someone can score me a.
In comparative perspective.
In the previous post, I wrote: [W]hy do people insist that Breaking Bad is a realistic portrayal of the perils of the methamphetamine trade? Because of scenes like what I’ll call “The Story of Jesse and the Beans.” I suggested that the answer is the...
Every time I listen to the old Tex Williams song "The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel for Single Girls Burned Down," I always think the relevant politicians are modern Republicans..
It reads like I actually did: On screen, when two characters or objects exist in relationship to each other, an imaginary axis between them constitutes the 180º line or line.
I post a link to this sketch from Mr. Show a little too often, but only because it's so regularly germane: More and more, I read conservatives and find myself taking umbrage at their anatomical logic. Case in point, John Nolte's review of The Hunger...
This this came up in comments, but as I've said before it's worth making it clear that rape exceptions to abortion laws don't actually make any sense. Carmon and Marcotte.
Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg summarize the problems with journalists writing history: We have to fight mediocrity as well as plagiarism – the two are more closely related than you.