In my latest piece for The Guardian, I borrow from James Baldwin and think through the claim that the year since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd has been about "racial reckoning." TL;DR: it hasn't been. The piece is HERE.
Wisconsin Republicans quickly rejected a fully-funded federal offer to provide healthcare to the poor: Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature on Tuesday convened and within seconds ended a special session called.
Krugman's column today points out what is both undeniable and yet still denied completely by the Democratic party as an institution (although not of course by many Democratic politicians and.
Here's the question in this new Ipsos poll to which respondents answered: "Who do you think the true President is right now? Choose one." (The choices were Joe Biden and Donald Trump). Among all respondents, 75% said Biden and 25% said Trump. This broke down as...
Here's a business owner with a CRAZY idea: As his six restaurants started ramping up for a post-pandemic world, Brian Will was struggling to find employees, so he went with.
You will be shocked, shocked to learn that Senate Republicans who didn't even want to do an infrastructure bill with Trump in the White House have less than no interest.
Boise State suspended a 55-section, 1,300 student class and the Idaho legislature passed an anti-"Critical Race Theory [sic]" law based on an uncorroborated claim from someone not in the class that a student was forced to apologize for being white and taunted by other students. A...
I mean besides the entire current economic and political power structure of the United States? Oh yeah, Andrew Sullivan: https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1396856834024169472 I'm no expert but I believe there are quite a.
This is a marvelous reconstruction of Greenwood and the people who owned businesses and/or lived there. The story summarizes what happened: Brick and wood-frame homes dotted the landscape, along with.
We've moved beyond the talk of 10 years ago when any discussion of climate change-induced storms would lead to howls of "We can't say any individual storm is related to climate change" that you'd get even from the left-of-center world to increasingly being able to measure...
There's probably no way to seriously take on climate change without significantly reducing beef consumption. Americans aren't going to do that and it's such a hot culture war topic that.
The Battle of Denmark Strait, in which the German battleship Bismarck destroyed the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Hood with the loss of almost her entire crew, was 80 years ago.