For the first time, I was asked to write a book blurb. That book is now ready for you to buy and you should do so. It's Stan Cox and Paul Cox, How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia. The...
Joe Paterno, moral giant of our age: A newly unsealed report from a risk-management expert found six different instances where sexual abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky were.
Thank you to commenters who recommended "The Witch" to me. I watched it and it was excellent. It's a film about a Puritan family who is banished from their village.
I can see why Black Lives Matter activists would worry that the Dallas shooting is going to undermine its cause. But all activists can do in a situation where a terrible thing happens at one of your protests is to just press on. There's really no...
Of course the United States could borrow the Australian model of dealing with student debt and tag it to income without any real expectation that the borrower is going to.
That populist Donald Trump, he's really a friend of the working person. I really take his populist talk about jobs and trade agreements very, very seriously. The history of workers.
Javier Sajuria posted this over at the UCL Constitution Unit last week while I was busy finding new and efficient ways to haemorrhage cash in Geneva. It's worth a read, and applies some political sciency-type stuff to the situation that the Labour Party finds itself in. Rules...
One of the things a president can do in her final months is to try to get items put on a party's ongoing agenda. Like this: President Obama is calling.
I write a lot about coal here and one thing that repeatedly strikes me is how Appalachian-centric writing about coal remains today. There are of course historical reasons for this,.
Charter schools don't educate students any better than public schools and are a giant grift. Besides, as Pierce says, "education is not a damn marketplace." But any good grift has global implications, right? So Teach for America is now spreading its great message that funding schools...
[embed]https://youtu.be/7iF26wKF-_M[/embed] Thanks to commentist Karl Dickman, I have asked myself the following question: Am I willing to pay $40 for an email address such as [email protected] or [email protected]? Liberal Tech.
Dr. Jill Stein is re-extending an invitation: Jill Stein, who is expected to be endorsed at the party’s August convention in Houston, told Guardian US that “overwhelming” numbers of Sanders.