Elizabeth Warren for Senate!: MAYBE YOU saw the pictures. Five middle-age men seated at a congressional hearing table to discuss freedom of religion and contraception. And not a single woman was on the panel. Unbelievable. Do you think Congress would ever have a hearing on...
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I can see the fierce opposition to upper-class tax hikes; it would be pretty rough for an individual to get by on just one Cadillac. In other news, Mittens is.
Mittens: dead wrong on the auto bailout, and consequently prone to lying about it.
On this date in 1912, the police force of Lawrence, Massachusetts brutally beat a group of children and their mothers as the children attempted to board a train to stay with union supporters in Philadelphia. This tactic, which had brought much attention to the textile...
Ryan Braun's suspension has been overturned. As is generally the case with drug warriors, MLB is furious that pesky things like "due process" and "checks to ensure that evidence is.
You probably thought this was about some other sexist academic, but it's actually about Vincent Hendricks, a philosopher who posted this on his website. Unlike that other sexist academic, Hendricks.
I don't agree with all of Yglesias' analysis here on cities regulating food trucks out of business, but the overall point is fairly sound. In the comment section for my post on Cleveland the other day, I suggested that cities trying to revitalize themselves need...
You can tell that mining companies have our interests in mind because of their deeply-held commitment to ensuring that poisonous heavy metals don't seep into the ecosystem. Photographs of variously.
It's not that easy to get Greenwald and Chait to agree on a foreign policy issue, but the genocidal ravings of Little Rambo Carlson seem to have done the trick.
Gauntlet thrown ... and there it is, still on the ground. I kicked it, but nothing doing. Not that I did expect or am expecting any different, but it'd be nice to see someone with the guts to defend their argument in a public forum....
The reporting of Garrett Epps and Dahlia Lithwick suggests that the lawyers representing Xavier Alvarez -- the habitual liar convicted of violating the Stolen Valor Act -- had trouble coming up with.
It's probably been more or less proven by now that I spend my days a) finding weird stuff in the past, b) getting angry at the past, and 3) teaching.