Does this 1945 advertisement make you want to eat corn or curl up in a ball and hope the nightmare goes away?
And the Krauthammer Award for Lazy Mendacity goes to... Charles Krauthammer. In the process of using the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz to shill for war against Iran,.
Can a leftist have a rooting interest in the Super Bowl? Dave Zirin on why the Seahawks are so awesome from a political perspective: But to make this a social-media.
Thankfully the recent blizzard that hit the northeast did not bring with it White Walkers, pale spiders, wights, and other things that go bump in the (long) night. But it did bring with it the launch of HBO's Game of Thrones in IMAX and the first...
Night Will Fall is an HBO documentary about one aspect of the Holocaust. Specifically it's a documentary about the making of another documentary: German Concentration Camps: Factual Survey. GCCFS was.
Apparently, Romney figured out that if he had to scrap and claw to win a nomination contest in which he was effectively running unopposed, trying to beat actual competition wasn't.
Shorter Jim Webb: Sure, Barack Obama won two convincing electoral college majorities. But it was the wrong kind of majority. We need to be the party of Andrew Jackson again, if you know what I mean, which I think you do.
Consumers don't need "financial literacy" courses; they need consumer protection. Lawyer arrested for informing client of her rights. Sherman and Bennett v. the NCAA cartel. Doug Henwood on the sharing.
So...a toast to Erik, everybody!!!
What Yglesias says here, responding to Jon Chait's definition of "identity politics" as "shorthand for articles principally about race or gender bias" is very true and very necessary: This is, I think, the problem with idea of "identity politics" as a shorthand for talking about feminism...
We've already established that for today's Republicans the minimization of deaths is not a virtue, at least where something as important as arbitrary formal limitations on federal power are at.
It is my birthday. I am now 41 with the personality of an 80 year old and the back of a 60 year old (as the snow has reminded me)..