While not the optimal means of Medicaid expansion, the compromise accepted by Arkansas was a major advance for health care access. This means that Republicans in the state are refusing to go ahead with it. Which makes sense, since they're opposed in principle to providing decent...
If you are like me, you watched a lot of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom as a child. Why I thought of this tonight for the first time in years,.
Harold Ramis has passed. My favorite scene from his greatest film. Incidentally, I visited Punxsutawney in August. It is not a nice place.
I understand that Amel Ahmed is ultimately on the right side of the voting rights issue, but there is no context in which the phrase "John Roberts was right" should appear in a discussion of Shelby County, unless the question is whether his clerks spelled his...
As you recall, BP was responsible for a tiny little oil spill in 2010 called the Deepwater Horizon disaster. This only crushed tourism to New Orleans for several months, made.
Updated below A couple of days ago, in the course of surveying the grotesque spectacle of the three for-profit Infilaw law schools gorging themselves on hundreds of millions of dollars.
With legislation as complex and far-reaching as the ACA, it would be difficult for it not to have bad effects for someone, even though it's a major positive on net. What's remarkable, as Michael Hiltzik and Kevin Drum have pointed out, is that the anecdotes about...
NRO's Kevin Williamson uses the Arizona Jim Crow bill for gays to lament the courts overturning segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Barry Goldwater, who set the great precedent for.
Pema Levy notes that despite the abolition of the filibuster on most judicial appointments gridlock persists: This brings us back to Burr and May-Parker. The White House's efforts to fill.
Aftermath of the Rochester, Minnesota tornado, August 21, 1883. There's a whole page at the NOAA site of photos documenting the aftermath of this F5 tornado. Also, this series has become so popular that people are now helping me with it. Friends of the blog Jacob...
Eric Schlosser's Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety has, since its release, garnered a remarkable amount of attention for a book on nuclear.
I've talked a bit before about how U.S. government contracting priorities contribute to the exploitation of apparel workers overseas. So I want to highlight this report from the International Labor.