Lynn Parramore's piece exposing Abraham Lincoln's history as a railroad lawyer has some demythologizing value, but it would be a lot more useful if it placed Lincoln's railroad history within the larger context of the early Republican Party. Thinking of Lincoln as a corrupt Gilded Age...
Happy post-Thanksgiving, all. With luck, we won't have to deal with another holiday situation until Memorial Day or thereabouts. On Monday, I spoke with Bryan McGrath (my co-blogger at Information.
On early Wednesday evening I noticed four tents were pitched in a line in front of my local Best Buy, and I decided to do some journamalizing. It turned out.
My cat Sigmund: Between swatting at Sanchez (0:27) and turning his head in disgust at the image of Tebow (0:56), I think he's at least earned himself an interview.
Time for my annual link to Calvin Trillin's classic, which actually generated some metadiscussion at the Times this year. (For the record: garlic yes, cream no.) As the article points.
On November 22, 1887, a group of white vigilantes crushed a Knights of Labor led strike of black sugar workers in the fields around Thibodaux, Louisiana. Fighting back against largest.
For anybody who is ever inclined to take David M. Nieporent's opinions on any legal issue seriously, consider this comment, regarding whether it's legal to hire judicial clerks for full-time jobs and pay them a salary of zero: The whole “volunteer” thing is a red herring;...
Seth Ackerman has a really strong article at Jacobin on the Hostess shut-down. Much of it has great value for showing just how rare it is for companies to ask.
To echo what Krugman says here, I recently had to get a new Social Security card. This led to an absolutely harrowing experience where I filled in a form online,.
This is a request for reading suggestions. I'm trying to think about the following problem: How are societies going to deal with a world in which labor for wages economic model that characterized the post-agrarian industrial age is increasingly breaking down? In other words, what is...
Glenn Reynolds wants you to know that when it comes to secession, bothsidesdoit: Since the election, we've seen more interest in secession. Hundreds of thousands Americans in all 50 states.
Creepy unskewed polls guy is back with the real reason Obama won--voter fraud! [SL]: See also Weigel.