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; sightings from upstate New York to northern Virginia.— Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) March 23, 2013
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 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 watch the NCAA tournament. So consider slacking today and watching some hoops work to rule. I...
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.
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 latter. Oddly enough, this kind of thing gets airbrushed out of MSNBC's history of these events....
R.I.P.
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 large amounts of land unlivable. What's hilarious is Bobby Jindal's fake outrage and demands that the...
Our readers have reminded me of a lot of good stuff in addition to the open tabs I already had, so: David Rees had two great posts on the uniquely.
Is "Big Bottom" in G?