A few weeks ago Brad Plumer noted some theories as to why Americans don't move as much as they did in the past. My theory: Moving is objectively horrible, and that we increasingly shun the experience is the best evidence we have that the arc of...
What a guy! You might not suppose Roman Polanski and the 87-year-old Jerry Lewis had a great deal in common, but today the director followed Lewis' suggestion that broad comedy.
Good advice. Date unknown, but early 20th century.
On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company's giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-union leaflets to workers. As they crossed an overpass toward the plant, Ford's private army, led by...
This is a complement to the most recent podcast Steven Attewell and I produced, on "Second Sons," in which we discussed, among many things—some of them kitten-related—miscommunication and the wedding.
Via BJ. Sometimes I feel like the entire world is punking me.
Ugh, ugh, ugh. President Obama held a private meeting with top national security journalists on Thursday afternoon following his national security policy address at the National Defense University in Washington, POLITICO has learned. Present at the meeting were Thomas Friedman, The New York Times columnist; Gerald...
How incompetent is Angel Hernandez? So incompetent he can make you sympathetic to Hawk Harrelson.
This post on what each state should have as its state bird is much funnier and more worth reading than you'd expect.
The decline of wildlife along the Mekong River, and really in all of Southeast Asia, has reached crisis levels. Between widespread development and the Chinese desire to kill every mammal in existence, there isn't much left. On the Mekong, home of many now rare and amazing...
Hmmm.... This investigative report reveals that: Doug Ford, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, sold hashish for several years in the 1980s. Another brother, Randy, was also involved in the drug.
A special day for Republican hypocrisy on food stamps. In the Senate, you have our old friend, Louisiana's David Vitter: Vitter presented the bill as prohibiting “convicted murderers, rapists, and.