“We know this, and then we put it out of our minds, and then something happens to remind us.” By all accounts, Brown was One Of The Good Ones. But laying all this out, explaining all the ways in which he didn’t deserve to die like a dog in the street, is in itself disgraceful. […]

Today’s comic by Matt Bors is Hobby Lobby joins a cult!: A teaser from David Dayen’s interview with Keith Ellison: Ellison: My thoughts about where Detroit is today? I mean the real story of Detroit is, Ford, GM and Chrysler basically used Detroit to make a lot of dough. And when they could take advantage […]

Peter Hart at Fairness and Accuracy in Media writes Who Gets to Speak on Cable News? The identity of the whitest, malest show we found may surprise you. An excerpt: A survey of major cable news discussion programs shows a stunning lack of diversity among the guests. FAIR surveyed five weeks of broadcasts of the […]

Peter Hart at Fairness and Accuracy in Media writes Who Gets to Speak on Cable News? The identity of the whitest, malest show we found may surprise you. An excerpt: A survey of major cable news discussion programs shows a stunning lack of diversity among the guests. FAIR surveyed five weeks of broadcasts of the […]

Peter Hart at Fairness and Accuracy in Media writes Who Gets to Speak on Cable News? The identity of the whitest, malest show we found may surprise you. An excerpt: A survey of major cable news discussion programs shows a stunning lack of diversity among the guests. FAIR surveyed five weeks of broadcasts of the […]

Peter Hart at Fairness and Accuracy in Media writes Who Gets to Speak on Cable News? The identity of the whitest, malest show we found may surprise you. An excerpt: A survey of major cable news discussion programs shows a stunning lack of diversity among the guests. FAIR surveyed five weeks of broadcasts of the […]

Peter Hart at Fairness and Accuracy in Media writes Who Gets to Speak on Cable News? The identity of the whitest, malest show we found may surprise you. An excerpt: A survey of major cable news discussion programs shows a stunning lack of diversity among the guests. FAIR surveyed five weeks of broadcasts of the […]

Abandoned building in downtown Detroit. My late father was a World War II veteran, and as a child I remember him talking about the promise of America. “If you work hard enough, you can be anything you want to be,” he would say. My dad was a Teamster who drove a milk truck for a […]

Abandoned building in downtown Detroit. My late father was a World War II veteran, and as a child I remember him talking about the promise of America. “If you work hard enough, you can be anything you want to be,” he would say. My dad was a Teamster who drove a milk truck for a […]

After months of their much-hyped but still unproven charges of partisan skullduggery at the Internal Revenue Service, House Republicans this week took an axe to the IRS budget. The cost of the GOP vendetta is massive. Cutting the agency’s funding for the fifth consecutive year, the House in a 228-to-195 vote slashed the overall IRS […]