Sep 8 2019
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A man allegedly attacked the “Charging Bull” sculpture near Wall Street with what is described as a metal banjo…
Sep 5 2019
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From the accounts I’ve seen so far, the candidates at Wednesday night’s climate change town hall on CNN seemed…
Sep 2 2019
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It’s Labor Day, which means it’s the perfect time for the Wall Street Journal to run a story about a way in which…
Aug 22 2019
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Aug 19 2019
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My new (miserable) party trick when some blissfully ignorant new person asks me “what I do” is to turn the…
Jun 5 2019
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Paying attention to the news under Trump means you are guaranteed to learn about at least one or two nightmares each…
May 31 2019
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Let’s say you’re a piece of shit who wants to reduce the number of undocumented immigrants in this country, for…
May 16 2019
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Fox Business Network, that bastion of reasoned debate, hosted an hour-long “debate” on the virtues of capitalism and…
May 6 2019
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In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Sunday, presidential candidate John Hickenlooper declared that he was…
May 1 2019
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The United States is unique among Western democracies. We do not, and have never really had, a party of labor.
Feb 25 2019
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Sunday was Hollywood’s biggest night! No host? No problem! Never have a host again. Olivia Colman? She did that!…
Feb 15 2019
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When Amazon, the mega-corporation that some people bizarrely seem to think of as a beloved old friend, announced on…
Feb 12 2019
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Be still, my heart: Dutch historian Rutger Bregman has been on a bit of a wild ride since his appeal for the…
Feb 7 2019
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George Mason University professor Tyler Cowen, a plutocratic bootlicker who once argued that rich people should be…
Jan 28 2019
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There are few individuals in media worse than Tucker Carlson. The Fox News host regularly espouses white nationalist…
Jan 7 2019
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Remember that Great Recession line about how a “skills gap” in the American workforce was fueling high unemployment? Turns out that simply wasn’t true, according to a new study. Guess we’ll have to pick another aspect of the American education system to reform.
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Dec 21 2018
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Oh fucking HELL, it’s the Friday before Christmas, for FUCK’S sake, and CNBC went and published a fucking money…
Dec 4 2018
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After a nine-week strike, thousands of Mariott Hotel workers in San Francisco won a contract with significant wage…
Dec 3 2018
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Dec 3 2018
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In the U.S., healthcare is very expensive. There’s a bevy of statistics to prove this—we spend $3.5 trillion a year…