Lorna Atwater, a rural mail carrier from Berea, Kentucky, was driving her seventy-five-mile route through the Eastern Kentucky foothills when she noticed the woods behind a customer’s house were on fire. She called the fire...
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When Fox News screams the quiet part, it’s worth listening and gleaning a lesson — especially when the network lets the old “fair and balanced” veneer drop and admits its real mission. “We are waging...
A new professional basketball league is in the works courtesy of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. Earlier this month it was reported that the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF) would be investing in the...
In the center of the Polish capital, Warsaw, is a street called Nowy Swiat — New World Street. Built in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in a neoclassical style and reconstructed very meticulously to...
As of yesterday, Russell Vought had tweeted exactly fifteen times since being confirmed as Donald Trump’s director of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on February 6, including twice about balancing the federal budget, twice...
One of the more surprising elements in Bruno Leipold’s book Citizen Marx is just how fierce a critic Karl Marx was of what political scientists call presidential systems. In presidential systems, the executive is invested with...
These days, when people find out I cohost a podcast covering the social phenomenon known as QAnon, they invariably ask, “Is that still going on?” QAnon is a conspiracy theory movement positing that Donald Trump...
On Sunday, Germany took a huge step to the right. The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) ran a campaign focused on law and order and halting immigration — and overtook Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD)...
Four years ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was in Cedar Rapids touting the benefits of Joe Biden’s ambitious Build Back Better bill to a healthy but modest crowd of Iowans, whose mostly Republican members of...
Jonathan Kamens I’m a remote worker in Boston. My understanding is one DOGE guy was brought in to the VA, Justin Fulcher. For a long time, he was the only one. He was just talking...
The vast majority of National Labor Relations Board representation elections are for pretty small units: between 2020 and 2023, almost 90 percent of them were for units of one hundred workers or less. All workers...
Review of Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility by Melissa Osborne (University of Chicago Press, 2024) Below the coffered ceiling of Washington University’s stately Holmes Lounge, I gather with other faculty for...
