I have more on the abominable GOP alternative to the Affordable Care Act: The Medicaid expansion of the ACA is perhaps the most important achievement of the ACA, greatly expanding health coverage to the working poor. The Republican plan would undo most of this progress,...
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Today, I turn 40. Shall I start measuring myself for a coffin? .....I've already made a new friend after turning 40.
The salutary executive order on the minimum wage does indeed make this failure more glaring: White House press secretary Jay Carney’s abrupt response Monday to a question about protections for.
I do confess some curiosity over what would happen if the entire government went down due to some alien disease or poisoned ketchup mishap during the State of the Union address and a nuclear physicist became president.
Worth remembering 10 years later how the wardrobe incident at the Super Bowl halftime show effectively ended Janet Jackson's career with zero repercussions for Justin Timberlake.
This spring, I am teaching a graduate seminar on the Environmental History of the Americas. Since I know how much extra time everyone has, I thought I'd post the readings.
Not satisfied with the "Republican plan" that was enacted into law with no ex ante, contemporaneous, or ex post facto support from any national Republican, some congressional Republicans are pretending to have an alternative to the ACA. Its most salient issues: The end of guaranteed...
Obama will announce a minimum wage of $10.10 for all federal contractors. Obviously, it would be better if he would use the bully pulpit to force the Republican House to.
Wow. For the first time in the history of college sports, athletes are asking to be represented by a labor union, taking formal steps on Tuesday to begin the process.
Pete Seeger has died. He was 94. I have only a very fragmentary sense of how the revival of American folk music in the 1950s and 1960s played a role in the politics of the time, but apparently it did (Has there ever been a...
Getting rejected by the state of California in his application to practice law (PDF), largely because he has never really come clean about his actions with The New Republic, even.
Ron Fournier has discovered that everyone now agrees with him: For months, the White House and its allies mocked critics of Barack Obama's leadership, arguing that no president has "Green.