During the last election season, djw wrote a superb post about the illogic of using "dealbreakers" rather than a holistic evaluation of candidates. At least two commenters in a thread yesterday inadvertently demonstrate why the approach makes no sense in the course of defending it. Lets...
On March 5, 1972, the workers at General Motors' plant in Lordstown, Ohio went on strike after authorizing it two days prior. They were angry about sped-up work at their.
Konczal on a Worthwhile Democratic Initiative: Tuesday morning, President Obama put the final piece of his inequality agenda on the table. In releasing his 2015 budget, he calls for an.
I'm outraged by these Hollywood liberals. Not only have they refused to make a movie about how Martin Luther King was the foremost 20th century proponent of slavery, the movies they do make refuse to acknowledge that what the abolitionist conspiracy referred to as "slavery" wasn't...
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[caption id="attachment_55742" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Above right: still the most influential Republican thinker on civil rights"][/caption] I'll have more to say about Samuel Bagenstos's brilliant essay about legal arguments against civil.
On March 4, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed the LaFollette Seamen's Act, creating standards for working conditions on boats that the U.S. would enforce on all ships stopping at American ports, whether under American flags or not. It was not only a major early victory for...
On the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements I speak with Dmitry Gorenburg about the invasion of Crimea:
In her fine recent piece, Michelle Goldberg makes a point about electoral nihilism I've never seen put so well: But here’s the thing: arguments for ignoring electoral realities, for backing.
The Self-Styled Siren on Kim Novak: So let’s say — just as a hypothetical for-instance — you are an 81-year-old star whose last movie was in 1991 and who hasn’t been to the Oscars in many a long year. Not that you were ever nominated for...
This week, Méliès Monday brings you 1908's The Grandmother's Story.
The New York Times article (PDF) on Solomon Northup and his book, 12 Years a Slave, from January 20, 1853.