I met the charming and brilliant political theorist Marshall Berman only a couple of times, but I know many colleagues who interacted with him frequently and I never heard a negative word. R.I.P.
Shorter Ted Cruz: I have a dream. I have a dream in which the Senate consists of 100 unreconstructed bigots.* We would greet Barack Obama's next State of the Union.
As a general rule I consider hypocrisy a trivial sin, especially in the international sphere. As Dan puts it: @drfarls @emptywheel @MikeDrewWhat @DanielLarison organized hypocrisy is a feature, not a.
Time to make an announcement that's been in the works for awhile. Today, I signed a contract with The New Press. The book is tentatively titled "Out of Sight: A Century of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe" and is a history of American corporate mobility that builds connections...
Volkswagen has a plant in Chattanooga. It is used to its company unionism of Germany and wants to recreate that in the United States, in part because labor representatives in.
On the latest systematic rights violations from our benevolent national security overlords.
Bill Barnwell on the true brilliance of Chip Kelly, where he creates so many options that defenses actually forget about Michael Vick being able to run, opening up gigantic holes for someone defenses have made their primary focus for a decade. I also demand more formations...
In my last post, I made a big show of correcting the term "whispering campaign," a term that--I recently learned--did not need correcting. Apparently the term "whispering campaign" is legit..
A must-read piece from Henry Farrell.
Really, it's just nice to know that there are still people trying to pretend that they belong in the club: Except Dr. O’Bagy wasn’t actually a doctor. Her PhD was fabricated, a lie she told her employers at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW),...
David Neiwert has restarted Orcinus. This is great news.
I hate Colin. Click here and you can too.