Let’s face it: Despite the greeting-card companies’ efforts to convince us otherwise, February is the absolute armpit of the calendar year. But if you’re sitting underneath your happy lamp, swathed in layers of post-Christmas fat and long underwear, and thinking that things couldn’t get any worse, take heart-at least you’re not a politician in Georgia […]
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The Death of Dog-Whistle Politics
In today’s media environment, every message you send to your base gets heard by everyone. That’s a problem for the GOP.
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Michael Sam, “Distraction”
Claims by anonymous officials that Sam will bring negative PR to the NFL are functionally and morally indistinguishable from simple bigotry.
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Johnny Who?
Here’s Jimmy Fallon, the first late-night host too young to have worshipped Carson. Â
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The Ink-Stained Wretches of Wall Street
Dean Starkman’s The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark and the failures of the media during the financial crash.Â
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Daily Meme: Death by Metadata
Backed by billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Edward Snowden confidant and NSA antagonist Glenn Greenwald launched his superblog The Intercept today with a bang: new revelations about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) role in targeted drone strikes. The quick take? They’re going after SIM cards instead of people, which has led to the killing of […]
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Liberals, Conservatives, and the Meaning of Work
It appears that those who talk so much about “economic freedom” aren’t too happy when ordinary people have more choices.
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Horrible Bosses
Some employers are defending their cuts to employee wages and benefits by blaming the Obamacare bogeyman. That’s just plain hogwash.Â
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Chattanooga Showdown
If workers vote to join a union at Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant this week, they’ll be changing America’s labor relations for the better
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A Mighty Shout in North Carolina
The Moral Monday movement entered its second year with a bang on Saturday. But can it channel that upbeat energy to reverse a conservative tide?
