Month: April 2014

After reading about Josh Marshall’s journey into the Truther’s Jungle, I don’t think it’s overly optimistic to see ObamaCare as analogous to “skewed” polls and the collective right as...

Joel Warner and Peter McGraw went to Palestine to find out what kind of jokes they tell. They found some good ones: Later, we got to know stand-up comic Adi Khalefa, who claims to be the funniest guy from Nazareth since Jesus....

I think that there is less outright denial that climate change is occurring globally than there is here in the United States, but it is still true that no one wants to suffer any economic costs to deal with the problem. While...

Despite the fact that he won’t tell anyone whether or not he even owns a gun, the National Rifle Association has just endorsed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in his primary against Matt Bevin. The Gun Owners of...

Here is a screen shot of most of what remains of the Ukraine after losing Crimea. Notice how it is conveniently bifurcated north to south by the Dnieper River. The Dnieper River ˈniːpər is one of the major rivers...