The news earlier this week was all about the Supreme Court rulings on immigration and an update to Citizens United. Immigration got most of the attention, as the Supreme Court struck down most of Arizona’s papers-please law, except for the “papers please” bit. Still, because the Supreme Court struck down the part of the law [...]
But for one state Senate district in Wisconsin, the mean selfish streak that is the dark underbelly of American individualism won out last night. In the major recall election in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker became the first incumbent governor in American history to survive a recall election. Workers everywhere now know just where they can [...]
Most every media outlet, blogger, and wisecracking twitterite has already had their say in the case of the Miami Zombie. I’m not even going to bother tossing links around these sentences. You all know the story. Naked dude ate a half-naked dude’s face off on MacArthur Causeway while being shot by police. The cannibal, one [...]
The NATO conference in Chicago went off without much of a hitch over the weekend. Out in the streets, however, there were multiple hitches. Chicago police arrested at least 45 people. At least seven protesters were injured, along with four cops. But through it all, there was a surprising lack of Molotov cocktails being thrown [...]
Maybe it’s Apple’s fault for having such a sunshiny image in the first place. It’s not as though Foxconn, the Chinese company that has made headlines over the last several years for horrifying working conditions, only makes Apple products. Sure, the company manufactures iPads and iPhones. But it also assembles Amazon’s Kindle, Microsoft’s Xbox 360, [...]
I had planned to post a take on the upcoming U.S. Senate races today, especially given the changing landscape in two states. In Nebraska, former Senator Bob Kerrey, of Medal of Honor and war crime fame, announced he would indeed run for the Senate seat being vacated by conservative Democrat Ben “Don’t Call Him a [...]
There was a time when this would have been a fun primary to write about. The rise and fall of Michelle Bachmann, laid low by her own stupidity. Then the rise and fall of Rick Perry, laid low by his stupidity and/or hunting camp. Then the rise and fall of Herman Cain, laid low by [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
