Huh. Nate Silver, the statistician who attained national fame for his accurate projections about the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, is parting ways with The New York Times and moving his FiveThirtyEight franchise to ESPN, the sports empire controlled by the Walt Disney Company, according...
Author: Erik Loomis
No politician wants to talk about this and most Americans don't want to admit it, but the middle class is rapidly disappearing in this country, with contingent, part-time, and freelancing.
Adam Gopnik with an excellent essay on how Stand Your Ground is basically the American doctrine of maximum violence in a new era: In France and England, though, duelling was.
I guess Lanny Davis' dream of bipartisanship taking place over completely meaningless cultural items has come true in Pennsylvania: Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) released the following statement in response to news that the American Mustache Institute has decided to...
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the assault on Fort Wagner, when the African-American 54th Massachusetts so bravely tried to take the fort guarding Charleston Harbor.
In all the hubbub about the ridiculous salary CUNY wanted to pay David Petraeus to teach, we never thought to ask what kind of teacher he would be. The answer--he's.
In our part-time and contingent reality, where workers can't get 40-hour a week jobs even at the minimum wage, what they really need is their bosses giving them advice on how to live off their meager hours, multiple jobs, and low wages. [PC] I have...
If anyone needs to puke, reading Lanny Davis appropriating the Washington Nationals to push his dream of a purple America where everyone in the Beltway can just get along by.
So the ESPYs are super dumb and self-serving. Unless Norm Macdonald is the host. If you've never watched his monologue from when he hosted in 1998, you really should do.
I certainly have my critique of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States as a good history book, but it's power and importance can't be denied. And that's why Mitch Daniels wanted it banned from state universities when he was governor of Indiana....
I shouldn't be surprised by Kevin Drum defending the McDonald's budget for its workers, but it's pretty irritating. Moreover, his defense is awful weak, as is that of Tim Lee.
On July 17, 1944, a munitions explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California killed 320 soldiers, mostly African-Americans loading munitions onto ships. This spurred them to.