If you are like me, you know basically nothing about Ukraine and the protests going on there. This was tremendously useful. In part: More subtly, what this campaign does is attempt to reduce the social tensions in a complex country to a battle of symbols...
Author: Erik Loomis
19th century tool of Russian authoritarianism, meet 21st century Russian anarchist performance art collective: Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the group tried.
David Cameron: David Cameron says he is giving unemployed Britons “new hope and responsibility” by cutting their benefit payments and claims his welfare reforms are part of a “moral mission”.
The geologically stable state of Oklahoma has experienced over 500 measurable earthquakes in 2014, far and away already a record for the state and it is February. Why? Fracking, duh. Scientists have drawn links between earthquakes and wastewater injection wells used for oil and gas...
The University of Illinois-Chicago faculty have gone on strike in protest of the corporatization of the university that threatens what faculty do--our ability to teach and research, the stability of.
Horse overcome by heat, New York City, 1910.
Jimmy Carter was by no means a great president, but he really got screwed over by the media for stupid things like the supposed rabbit attack. I guess the media really needed a strong man like Ronald Reagan to make them feel good about themselves.
So let's say a large energy company, perhaps Chevron, has come into your community exploring for fuel. And let's say that Chevron screws up and one of their gas wells.
We now know something about the recipe for early Scandinavian booze: When a desire for an alcoholic beverage strikes, sometimes the best strategy is to use what you have to.
Earlier this morning, I summed up each presidency in one tweet. They are collected here. Kelsey Atherton undertook a similar project, also worth reading.
Soldiers cutting up abandoned horse during General George Crook's "Horsemeat March" to punish the Lakota after the Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876. It was called this because the American troops.
I know Nic Kristof doesn't put in any actual work to write his columns, but this is ridiculous. Erik Voeten with the obvious rejoinder that, in fact, academics are pretty.