I wanna see how this turns out: Struggling to stand upright against a howling wind, Bragi Benediktsson looked out over his family’s land — a barren expanse of snow and ice that a Chinese billionaire wants to turn into a golf course — and laughed. “Golf...
Turn off the college basketball games you never care about when you're not gambling on them and spend the weekend watching something worthwhile. You're welcome. UPDATE: So long as we're.
Because when you think about it, there's only about a 50 percent chance we'll all be dead by morning: FLASH: Reports of a possible meteor seen on U.S. Eastern Seaboard;.
Pramila Jayapal makes a compelling case for the inherent sexism of the debate on immigration with very real consequences for immigrant women. There are a lot of undocumented women working as well and their concerns are just as important. She calls for crafting immigration legislation that...
As you've no doubt heard, Matt Yglesias recently bought a townhouse. I know! Important news! He also paid a tidy sum for it, which means that he's required, by the.
One of the only ways American workers still take time back from their employers in a workplace where more and more is demanded of fewer and fewer employees is to.
I wonder how the defenders of Rand Paul's paranoia about drone strikes attacking U.S. citizens feel about his bill to withdraw the United States from the United Nations? Paul appears to be following in the footsteps of his father — former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) —...
Despite growing income inequality, American national mythology tells us we can get rich if we just work hard enough. The problem with this myth is that the empirical evidence does.
It's always worth remembering that MSNBC had to choose between the market and ideology when its most popular host opposed the Iraq War in 2002 and 2003. It chose the.
The Library of Congress added its yearly 25 choices to the National Recording Registry. Interesting choices throughout, including the greatest song ever used in a political campaign (not to mention.
When you let a mining company do whatever it wants with limited regulations, it turns out that horrible things can happen, like gigantic sinkholes that destroy people's homes and make.