The true meaning of freedom is Freedom Industries declaring bankruptcy immediately after its chemical spill made water unsafe for 300,000 West Virginia residents. Freedom owes $3.6 million to its top 20 unsecured creditors, according to bankruptcy documents. The company also owes more than $2.4 million in...
Speaking of conservatives who want to pretend to talk about inequality while not actually talking about it, Edroso finds this gem from Kathleen Parker: Obviously, marriage won’t cure all ills..
David Bacon's The Right to Stay Home is high on my reading list. Demonstrating the profound impact of NAFTA on both the United States and Mexico, it shows how NAFTA.
David Brooks presents us with an instant classic of the "let us have the comity and civility to all come together and concede that conservatives are right about everything" genre. The subject is inequality, and it actually induces this sentence: There is a growing consensus that...
My hopes for the updated Maritime Strategy: Chatter suggests that the U.S. Navy will soon release an update to the Cooperative Strategy for 21stCentury Seapower. The Cooperative Strategy envisioned the maritime.
Pennsylvania's vote suppression law has been ruled unconstitutional by a state court: A Pennsylvania judge on Friday struck down the state’s voter ID law, which was signed in early 2012.
“American Hustle” is a film that lingers on your palate like that last sip of that flowery, chocolatey Beoujolais you had that one time. It’s sweet and it’s sophisticated It may make you feel a little tipsy, even a little sexy. But whatever it makes you...
It's so dumb that wingnuts have embraced it. Now, I'll grant that the left version of this argument is just as silly and made by people who should know better..
Another day with the machinery of death. If only there was another way of punishing terrible crimes -- perhaps a long or even permanent period of imprisonment. Until we come.
You might think corn-based ethanol is the worst possible "green energy" alternative. And I'd like to think you are right. After all, turning the entire Midwest into a giant corn monoculture and destroying the remnants of a once fertile ecosystem in order to force an inefficient...
It's no wonder that we are doing nothing on climate change given that it gets almost no coverage in the national media. And it's not like climate change is the.
If you are like me, you think Lawyers, Guns, and Money has really gone downhill since Erik Loomis began posting here, what with the unionism and socialism and all the.