Mike Konczal usefully summarizes Gordon Lafer's new report on the Tea Party's class warfare. Although the media and most blogs have focused on Tea Party legislators' work to undermine voting rights and reproductive rights, typically their work undermining employee rights has gone underreported. An excerpt: Crucially,...
D.W. Griffith's 1909 film about how much it sucked when Progressive Era women with gargantuan hats sat in front of you at the theater.
You can be sure I'm going to tell my newly minted niece, Arya Rose, the correct answer to that question. For the record: I had nothing to do with the.
Farewell to George Thomas Thornton, an American visionary who understood that few dreams are worth pursuing that don't involve dynamite and the rotting carcasses of charismatic megafauna. While Thornton's decision to obliterate a sperm whale in November 1970 would, decades later, bring him lasting internet fame,...
I suppose it would be in poor form to say this young feminist-- and her funny, inspiring open letter to trolls-- is adorable. So I won't. But I'm gonna have.
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, Walter White spoke with Jesse Pinkman about drones, Ender's Game, and video games:
Senator Ted Cruz calls his colleague Rand Paul a “good friend.” The two men are the stars of the Tea Party movement, propelled to Washington by activist fervor and allied in their effort to restrain the reach...
The LGM archive of October 2004 amounts to a grim tale of woe, punctuated by busted predictions, forlorn hopes, and dawdling over irrelevancies. Re-posting the first few days of November.
Edward Bland’s 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz is one of the most remarkable films I’ve ever seen. An early statement of the black nationalism that would become famous in.
Regardless of what one thinks of the strategy of civil disobedience from immigration activists who risk deportation, actually deporting one of them is incredibly awful. Perez’s lawyer, David Bennion, explains that deportation doesn’t make sense. She came to the country at the age of four, graduated...
In this week's Diplomat column, I muse a bit on China, technological innovation, and IP law: A recent report by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) gives some advice.
I must admit that I don't find this at all surprising:Caitlin C. Rosenthal didn’t intend to write a book about slavery. She set out to tackle something much more mundane:.