A few links for your Wednesday morning... I have no doubt that this tumblr blog, cataloging an "impressive" record collection, is cute and amusing. So why did I cringe when I read about it? Oh, right. It's because I've been a serious music lover since I...
Ben Casselman usefully tries to figure out just how many people are trying to survive and support themselves on less than President Obama's proposed $10.10 minimum wage. While solid numbers.
Jeff Wise argues that theory on Flight 370 Paul discussed earlier today is probably wrong: Goodfellow’s account is emotionally compelling, and it is based on some of the most important.
I'm generally skeptical of tax credits to businesses and I'd like to see them all eliminated were the government and everyday citizens to be empowered to fill in the gaps that these credits sometimes cover when do well. But since my utopian world is far away,...
“Helping the Poor–Gratuitous Distribution of Coal by the City–Cherry Street,” New York City, 1877 Konczal's essay on the voluntarism fantasy of conservatives who argue that private charity used to operate.
Given the continuing absence of any evidence for more esoteric/sinister theories 11 days after the disappearance of FL370, this account seems increasingly plausible: The left turn is the key here..
Timothy Noah has a good run-down of wage theft in fast food and the role franchising plays in it: What’s unusual here aren’t the claims of labor law violations, which are common enough, but rather, who’s being blamed. The wall that fast food workers hope to...
Paul Ryan, unfortunately the latest Irish-American politician to forget the roots of his people and become a right-winger, has had a very racist week. Blaming black people for inner-city conditions.
Shorter Bill Kristol: H/t Matt Duss.
More on the Mistral question at The Diplomat: Over the next two years, the Russian Pacific Fleet is expected to receive two new Mistral class amphibious assault ships, fresh from French naval yards. These flattops would have joined the burgeoning family of flat-decked aircraft carrying ships in...
On March 18, 1970, postal workers around the nation went on strike. This illegal but pioneering strike of public sector workers not only forced the Nixon Administration to cave but.
An embarrassing and truly awful decision by the Seattle City Council. The problem is not, as the article seems to imply, "regulation" in the abstract--driving training, background checks, insurance rules,.