This is really Erik's beat, but the NLRB is holding a set of hearings this week on the nascent movement among college football players to organize a union. The first witness was former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter (he exhausted his eligibility last semester and plans to...
Damon Linker has yet another of his trademark "other people's fundamental rights must be sacrificed to appease conservatives because something" arguments. For example, "when liberals use the government's coercive powers.
This is very European: No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled Monday when an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked his own plane and forced it to land in Geneva, because it happened.
I bring this to your attention because it’s fun to do a little thought experiment with a “What Your Favorite Kind of Cookie Says about You” kind of story. And here’s the experiment: What would be worse--if someone were paid to write this or if someone...
A journalist is running for Congress in California! Matt Miller, the host of KCRW's politics show "Left, Right, and Center," announced this afternoon that he is running for the Congressional.
Jimmy Carter was by no means a great president, but he really got screwed over by the media for stupid things like the supposed rabbit attack. I guess the media.
So let's say a large energy company, perhaps Chevron, has come into your community exploring for fuel. And let's say that Chevron screws up and one of their gas wells explodes, kills a worker (subcontracted worker of course), and burns for six days. And let's say...
Yeselson's analysis is exceptional, if depressing: Anybody can take the litany of factors I mention above and pick out the ones they think were most salient. Yes, the opposition of.
We now know something about the recipe for early Scandinavian booze: When a desire for an alcoholic beverage strikes, sometimes the best strategy is to use what you have to.
In proof that sometimes even an idea as dubious as bicameralism can work, the Kansas Senate will apparently not pass the House's recently passed LBGT Jim Crow law, at least in its current form: Kansas Senate leaders promised Friday to dramatically change the controversial House religious...
Earlier this morning, I summed up each presidency in one tweet. They are collected here. Kelsey Atherton undertook a similar project, also worth reading.
War is Boring has published a short excerpt of Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force. The excerpt is taken from the chapter on drones, and stems.