Katie Billotte rightfully exposes the decline of the liberal arts in higher education as an important facet of the conservative war on anything institution in this country that might create free-thinking people. Education is a political act. For over half a century, the conservative movement...
Author: Erik Loomis
Nicholas Kristof is all about protecting workers--if they can fulfill his white man fantasies of swooping into Cambodian brothels to save women of color from the sex trade. If those.
I have trouble understanding people who don't believe in the theory of evolution. This is like not believing in gravity or climate change. Oh yeah, these people don't believe in.
Back in July, I spent a week on California's North Coast, doing research for my book at Humboldt State, hiking, sampling the area's amazing beers, and thanks to Scott Greacen, director of Friends of the Eel River, interviewing some participants in the movement to save...
1. Sarah Jaffe on the liberal pundits, including Nocera and Kristof at the Times, repeating right-wing talking points about unions. 2. Dave Zirin compares the CTU strike to the plutocrat.
Corey Robin has a great post about why so many liberals hate public school teachers and don't support their labor actions. Corey grew up in a wealthy New York suburb.
Scott already warmed you all up on this post on who to vote for in past presidential elections. Some additional thoughts. 1. I realize Jefferson and Madison were not particularly effective in office. But the Federalists were responsible for the Alien & Sedition Acts, the...
Scholars believe they have finally found the remains of King Richard III. Now testing the remains, which show a curvature of the spine, for DNA. Pretty cool. On the other.
Sarah Palin speculates on the size of the presidential penis. It鈥檚 about time our president stood up for America and condemned these Islamic extremists. I realize there must be a.
Take a look at some of the amazingly beautiful species we are driving to extinction. Pictures are all our descendants will have of these species.
Alex Pareene has had about enough of the pundits, ranging from conservative to "liberal," who are somewhere between outraged and annoyed by the Chicago teachers strike. I am going to.
I mean, even Rahm has some redeeming value, right? On second thought, he probably doesn't. Meanwhile, one of Rahm's aids found it necessary to respond to a similar sign from.