Chris Mooney has a rather odd article at Grist entitled "Can We Finally Have a Serious Talk About Population?," profiling a new book on the subject by Alan Weisman. Correctly, he notes that population growth is a part of ongoing environmental crises. But if one...
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Another predictable demand has been added to the GOP's ransom note: House Republicans have added a measure aimed at limiting contraceptive coverage to the spending bill coming up for a.
I've been annoyed that David Gilmour was using the real David Gilmour's name since he was a mediocre yet smug film critic for CBC in the 80s, so I was.
Only the greatest nation in human history could have a plutocracy of unbelievable wealth and endemic poverty that forces children to go hungry and reinforces gender and racial inequality.
Ladies, can you believe he's single?! *"Sorry," not you, Shakezula.
These drawings of all your varieties of 18th century drunk British women pretty much describes the average Friday night of your typical LGM reader writer. I relate most to the.
. . . unsound? This message showed up today in the in-boxes of a whole lot of lawyers: "In the event of a government shutdown on October 1, 2013, the federal judiciary will remain open for business for approximately ten business days. On or around...
I think Chait gets the dynamics of the debt-ceiling hostage-taking exactly right: Obama absolutely cannot negotiate under any circumstances, which is unfortunate since Boehner is exactly the kind of clown.
This is good news: New Jersey must allow gay couples to marry starting Oct. 21, because the state's civil union law is unconstitutionally denying federal benefits to same-sex couples, a.
I'm not sure why there's been an uptick on violence against Sikhs -- tensions with Iran? Syria? I don't know -- but I'm noticing it more and more, and I don't think I'm suffering from confirmation bias. So, for example, today a judge in Mississippi...
These two posts by Rebecca Watson made me chuckle because A.) they were biting and funny and B.) because they reminded me of my experience posting under this old Amanda.
Mark Tushnet's typically excellent new book about the Roberts Court represents an epochal historical moment -- I believe it's the first time this blog has been cited in book form.