I know we are reentering the New Gilded Age, what with the economic inequality and union busting and facial hair. But I'm not sure we need to go this far. I was certainly interested in the old-school high waisted pants Joaquin Phoenix wore in Her, but...
In Paul's thread from yesterday, a commenter expresses a sentiment that I've encountered way too often among American liberals: I didn’t realize Thomas could actually speak. I thought Scalia just.
I assume current Comcast customers will have some thoughts about my new monopolistic overlords? UPDATE: the case against.
There’s a heated battle going on at NRO to become the Internet’s Biggest Wingnut Punchline. All the wingnut welfare recipients over there are dirty rotten bastards who will stab a dude in the balls to secure this coveted title. But I doff my cap to Quin...
Tom Perkins edition.
On February 13, 1845, the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association forced the state of Massachusetts to hold hearings on reducing the work day in the state's textile mills to 10.
On the heels of arguing that strategy isn't so important, let me suggest that the impact of strategists is generally over-stated: Does this mean that Obama is indebted to any particular theorists of restraint or “offshore balancing?” Not likely. There are many strategic theorists who would...
Well, this is certainly a way to solve the Ducks: The NCAA committee recommended a rules change that will allow defensive units to substitute within the first 10 seconds of.
While at The Raw Story retreat last weekend in San Francisco, my colleague Arturo Garcia and I had a long conversation about the show that went something like this...
Now this is my kind of history: What did Paris smell like in the mid-18th century? Try skunked red wine, wet cats, and gingivitis-tinged sputum, all bubbling in an open sewer on a record-setting summer's day. I can say this with some authority as I recently...
No surprise here: In yet another instance of science belatedly confirming what common sense has already told us, a new paper from researchers at three Canadian universities concludes that Internet.
Tanner Colby has a strange Slate piece arguing that affirmative action doesn't work. In fairness, he's not exactly saying that it doesn't work -- "millions of people do well under.