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December 2017

  1. Best Albums of 2017
  2. NFL Week 17 Open Thread
  3. New Year’s Eve Flashback With Ella Fitzgerald
  4. 2017: A Historian’s Reading
  5. “Anyone who thought that ditchwater was dull could have spent an instructive half-hour in that ditch with a powerful microscope.”
  6. Why Do These Trump Campaign Advisers Keep Boasting About Their Collusion With the Russians?
  7. Erica Garner was a Victim of State Violence. May She Rest in Power.
  8. Do bipartisan cyborgs dream of electoral sheep?
  9. Recy Taylor and the Courage of Testimony
  10. We Need A Genuine Left-Populist Challenge to the Neoliberalism of Hillary Clinton From [Checks Notes] Rand Paul
  11. “DELETE UGH.”
  12. Populist Launches Bold Challenge to Neoliberal Consensus
  13. Stretching the Last Jedi to the Breaking Point…
  14. “Democrats Need To Run People Whose Policy Positions Are Identical To Mine In Every Jurisdiction,” A Useless Political Analysis Editors Love
  15. Homeless in America
  16. Is disenfranchisement really that bad if African-Americans can still make it to the polls?
  17. A year in Trumpland
  18. There Will Be No Republican Pivot Against Trump (While He’s In Office)
  19. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 182
  20. The most pathetic franchise in major North American team sports
  21. Boxing Day Links
  22. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 181
  23. That’s super
  24. Christmas Open Thread on Beer Commercials
  25. At This Blog, WE HAVE NEVER STOPPED SAYING “MERRY CHRISTMAS”
  26. This Day in Labor History: December 27, 1831
  27. The Undead Trump Voter Article Genre
  28. NFL Open Thread: Christmas Eve Edition
  29. Yes, Virginia, there is a Crisis of Democracy
  30. Merry Kitchmas
  31. The Election of Donald Trump Was the Defeat of IDENTITY POLITICS
  32. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 180
  33. Music Notes
  34. Donald Trump’s Election Was the End of Neoliberalism
  35. Today in American Ethnic Cleansing
  36. This Day in Labor History: December 23, 1872
  37. Carter Page: I Can Haz Dissertation, Plz?
  38. Presidential Coinage in a Fascist Age
  39. Reason to believe
  40. Farmworkers and Sexual Violence
  41. Today in American Ethnic Cleansing
  42. America’s Democracy Problem
  43. Great Moments In Murc’s Law
  44. War!?!?!?!?!?
  45. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 179
  46. Negative partisanship and public opinion
  47. 2017 Has Been Horrible. So Here’s a Few Things That Aren’t Horrible
  48. The Symbolic Politics of China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative
  49. Steve Bannon says Russian collusion case is meritless, as demonstrated by Jared Kushner’s collusion with the Russians
  50. Remember the soul-stirring principled conservatism of the Never Trump movement?
  51. Republicans Refuse to Fund CHIP
  52. The Greatest Thing Any Human Being Has Ever Accomplsihed
  53. Let’s Put Up New Monuments
  54. China’s Submarine Export Ambitions
  55. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 178
  56. America’s Elites Were Fervently Opposed to Donald Trump
  57. #TakeEmDown901
  58. A Rare Actual Example of IDENTITY POLITICS in the Pejorative Sense
  59. Guillotine Shirt
  60. Destroyers: Destroy!
  61. A Truly Trumpian Tax Bill
  62. Twelve Favorite Novels I Read in 2017
  63. The Republican Blitzkrieg on Workers
  64. Trump is the most despised president in modern American history
  65. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 177
  66. The phony left
  67. Your Vote Doesn’t Matter So Why Bother!
  68. The Silliest Use of “Neoliberal” As A Vacuous Pejorative
  69. For Once, Trump Should Have Followed His Instincts
  70. India’s Carrier Fleet
  71. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 176
  72. Favorite Records of 2017
  73. In Conclusion, Both Parties Are the Same and Only Jill Stein Can Save Women’s Rights
  74. The ACA Will Survive, And Be the Basis For a Better Statute
  75. The other side of opioids
  76. Bullcrap
  77. Locking Up Heroin Users Solves No Problem
  78. Foreign Policy Decisions Meant to Appease Christian Fundamentalist Apocalyptic Fantasies May Indeed Have a Down Side
  79. Alex Kozinski quits
  80. Police Decertification and the Mechanics of Accountability
  81. Today in the War On (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs
  82. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 175
  83. Taxpocolypse
  84. Enjoy Responsibly
  85. Passenger Pigeon
  86. Don Choad on the Road
  87. On West on Coates
  88. The Wages of Ethnic Cleansing
  89. NFL Open Thread
  90. But his emails
  91. “Oh Lord, It’s Hard To Be Humble When You’re Perfect In Every Way”
  92. The Shape of the Senate 2018
  93. Presidents Should Never Name Sitting Office Holders to Appointed Positions
  94. Moore continues his pursuit of that lean, mean, mean green
  95. New from the workshop of Bannon Hakkonen – POP
  96. It’s Here, It Will Pass, and It’s Horrible
  97. Forbidden Words
  98. “I enjoy the sexual interplay between the sexes” is something I, a human, like to say
  99. Matt B. brings the sequel you’ve really been waiting for
  100. Candidate Who Began His Campaign By Calling Mexicans Rapists Won By Mobilizing White Resentment
  101. Star Wars: May the Force Be with You
  102. Star Wars: If Only You Knew the Power of the Dark Side
  103. In Shocking Development, Media Gets Conned By Selective Republican Leaks
  104. School Segregation: The Evil of a Racist Nation
  105. Killing Americans Like It’s 1899!
  106. Oh Hey, Andrew Sullivan Exists and He’s Still Racist
  107. Hillary Clinton Was the More Dangerous Evil
  108. Abannonment Issues
  109. The Force
  110. Desegregation Has Never Happened
  111. Why is legal academia still remaining (mostly) silent on Alex Kozinski?
  112. A Politics That Sound Great in Theory, Work Less Well in Practice
  113. Thursday Linkage
  114. Universal Health Care: A Feminist Issue
  115. Deep Thoughts From America’s Greatest Moral Sage
  116. NAFTA and the Mexican Diet
  117. Heroes of the Resistance
  118. The Manigault Line
  119. Democracy (or “democracy”) in action
  120. Alabama’s Grand, The State Not the Band
  121. Is Becoming the Party That Tolerates Sexual Misconduct Excellent News For the Republican Party? (SPOILER: No)
  122. White Republicans in Alabama voted almost unanimously for a child molesting slave apologist
  123. NRSC chair misspelled White
  124. “If Luther doesn’t win, they’re not going to say we picked up 25 points in a very short period of time. They’re going to say, ‘Donald Trump, the president of the United States, was unable to pull his candidate across the line. It is a terrible, terrible moment for Trump. This is total embarrassment.
  125. Felon Re-enfranchisement and the Political Future
  126. Why Unpopular In Parties Get Slaughtered
  127. HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT
  128. AL-Sen Open Thread
  129. Sebastian Gorka is dreaming of a white Christmas
  130. Gillibrand ’20
  131. Yeah Jeets!
  132. HAPPY PEDO DAY!!
  133. The Problem WIth Democracy Is That It Cannot Be Fully Trusted To Elect Lawless, Anti-Semitic Child Molesters
  134. “Also, We Once Had an Accountant Who Was A Jew. And the Alabama Football Team Has a Large Urban Population.”
  135. A Jury of Their Peers
  136. “In many cases, school district lines are the more potent Confederate monuments that we still need to take down”
  137. Ryan Lizza charged with unspecified sexual misconduct and fired by New Yorker
  138. Politics as Tattoos, Revisited
  139. Gerrymandering
  140. Look at These People
  141. “Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages”
  142. Alex Kozinski
  143. “There Are Too Many Amendments Nowadays. Please Eliminate Most of Them. I Am Not A Crackpot.”
  144. Modern Era Committee Bats .500
  145. Privileged White Man Scandalized by Stupid College Essays and Stupid Tweets
  146. Trump Didn’t Start the Fire
  147. NFL Open Thread
  148. Who Really Matters in Utah?
  149. The Failures of American Capitalism
  150. “Let Me Show You My Pure Political Positioning Like I Show You My New Tattoo. Me, Me, Me”
  151. American Fascism
  152. Music Notes
  153. Yeah Jeets Yeah Jeets!
  154. The Burger King
  155. Fake Balance and Asymmetrical Polarization: A Dismal Combination
  156. The Good Guys Win One
  157. Family Values
  158. All Hat, No Cattle
  159. A womb of one’s own
  160. Gross Malpractice By the Mainstream Media Was a Much Bigger Problem Than Fake News In 2016
  161. Stranger Things Season 2
  162. South African Nukes
  163. Yellow Power
  164. Today in the American Meritocracy
  165. The British Nostalgia Complex
  166. The Tax Bill is an Extension of the Culture War
  167. A portrait of the grifter as an old man
  168. Time to Believe
  169. Franken Should, and Will, Resign
  170. Both Sides Do It, But the Democrat Party Is More Neoliberal
  171. Indo-Pacific
  172. John Anderson
  173. The Non-Utah Monuments
  174. A Man of Moral Righteousness and Steely Logic
  175. The Ballad of Johnny Unbeatable
  176. Kennedy Ready to go Trump on Civil Rights Enforcement
  177. Air, Cyber, Space
  178. The Monuments
  179. Romney and Trump
  180. LGM College Bowl Mania!
  181. Long Range PLAAF
  182. Toward a general theory of Albert Pujols
  183. Honey, I sunk your favorite tax breaks
  184. If Only You Had Voted For Nina Turner, 48 Could Be More Than 52
  185. When Serial Harassers Attack
  186. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 174
  187. Your Republican Party
  188. Buchwald
  189. Sunday links
  190. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 173
  191. NFL Open Thread: Eli’s Going
  192. What Will Become of Legal Marijuana?
  193. Baldwin
  194. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 172
  195. There once was a coke fiend who fired a guy (Update – The Lawyer did it!)
  196. The Schneiderman Firewall
  197. Senate Passes What Would Be One of the Worst Bills Ever Enacted By the United States Congress
  198. Late Night Tax Horror Thread
  199. Get Out
  200. Trump is going to fire Mueller pretty soon
  201. Who’s next?
  202. Control the Supply Chains
  203. Oh, Shut Up
  204. Flashback Friday: “Nature Boy” Goes From Jazz to Trip Hop
  205. Flynn to Testify Against Trump
  206. State Issued Labor Contracts
  207. Paul Ryan is a Collaborator, Not a Coward
  208. There Are No Moderate Republicans, An Endless Series

November 2017

  1. John McCain, Reactionary and Partisan Hack
  2. Next You Are Going To Tell Me Donald Trump Doesn’t Really Care About Outsourcing
  3. Legalize Sex Work
  4. Cotton to CIA?
  5. Steve Bannon’s Populist Revolution Continues
  6. “Let’s Get As Much As We Can Before the Cops Show Up”
  7. Matt Lauer is exactly the sort of guy who needed a remote controlled lock on his office door
  8. Professional collaboration
  9. The Thread of Despair
  10. Gutting State
  11. “They Act Like Sexist Assholes.” “You Ever Think They’re Not Acting?”
  12. West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
  13. Is Our Democrats Learning?
  14. Today in American Ethnic Cleansing
  15. Public Intellectual Needs A Better Fantasy Life
  16. A thought on the tax bill
  17. Structure of the International Arms Trade
  18. Dumberer
  19. Law school update
  20. How To Actually Cover Nazis
  21. James O’Keefe’s House of Massive FAIL
  22. On Trump and the idea of political correctness
  23. There are Slave Markets in Libya and It’s All Hillary Clinton’s Fault
  24. Our Perfect Constitutional Machine
  25. Paul Ryan Upset That People Are Telling the Truth About His Atrocious Tax Plan
  26. Next: David Duke Enjoys Gumbo and Trips to the Piggly Wiggly
  27. NFL Open Thread: Experience Nate Peterman Edition
  28. Sunday Book Review: Architect of Air Power
  29. Words Next To Each Other: The Case For Consumerist Wank Voting
  30. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 171
  31. How Obama Will Be Evaluated by History
  32. Just a Couple More Friedman Units
  33. Problems We Could Be Solving Instead of Passing a Counterproductive Upper-Class Tax Cut
  34. The ultimate, incontestable, 100% bullet-proof refutation of allegations that Republicans colluded with Russia
  35. #OptOutside
  36. The Worst Thanksgiving Food Take of All Time
  37. Fire Joe Morgan
  38. In Which Foucault Takes Over a Nice Household
  39. In Which I Confess I Am a Coastal Elite Looking Down on the Crazy White People of Flyover States
  40. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 170
  41. Tom Thumb, Tom Cushman, or Tom Foolery Get Scorching-Ass Takes With the Help of Chuck Woolery
  42. Black Friday
  43. Happy Contra Day!
  44. The misogyny is coming from inside the newsroom!
  45. This Day in Labor History: November 23, 1903
  46. The Worst American Journalism Has to Offer
  47. The Ryan Grigson Award For Inept Sports Management: #LOLOILERS Edition
  48. Lewinsky scandal revisionism
  49. Murkowski Rolls
  50. The Kind of Company Scott Walker Loves
  51. A heartwarming Thanksgiving tale
  52. What Is Our Fascist Immigration Agency Up To Now?
  53. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 169
  54. What “Soft on Crime” Means (Read: Vote for the Child Molester)
  55. The Definitive Piece on the 2016 Election, Its Coverage and the Voters
  56. Climate and Capitalism
  57. Budget Crowdsourcing
  58. The Art of Monstrous Men
  59. One prick down (Update)
  60. Net Neutrality
  61. David Duke, Donald Trump, and Economic Anxiety (TM)
  62. One Year
  63. Laughing When It Hurts and Why Your Trump Jokes Suck
  64. Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptance
  65. Haiti: Again Alone
  66. ARA San Juan Update
  67. Thanksgiving Strategies
  68. Is Our Culture Changing?
  69. Philippines
  70. “I Am Sick And Tired Of People Saying That Utah Does Not Share A Border With Belgium”
  71. Book Review: Matthew Delmont, Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation
  72. International Men’s Day: Let Men Wear What They Want
  73. Manson
  74. The New Gilded Age
  75. The Kudos Project – a disruptive new way to humiliate employees & cut their wages
  76. Today in American Ethnic Cleansing
  77. “I’m a giver … It’s just service is a thing for me.” (TW – Republicans and girls, again)
  78. Hot Take: Megan McArdle, Roy Moore Apologist Edition
  79. ARA San Juan
  80. NFL Open Thread: The Whole Damn System Is Out of Order Edition
  81. Vox’s Mr. Block
  82. I Am Not Your Negro
  83. Meet Paul
  84. Truman and the Left
  85. On Franken and “Fairness”
  86. All Hot Takes All the Time
  87. Hot Take Artist Pens His Masterpiece
  88. The Conveniently Awful Memory of Jared Kushner, Felonious Perjury Edition
  89. Saturday Pop Culture Notes
  90. The Conveniently Awful Memory of Jared Kushner
  91. Brexit is going swimmingly and nobody should panic or flee the country
  92. Shorter Roberts Court: There Is Too Little Corruption In American Politics Nowadays
  93. Draining the swamp
  94. Stranger Kids
  95. The War on Teachers is Working Precisely as Intended
  96. Progressivism, Trump-Russia, and Transnational Kleptocracy
  97. Flashback Friday: “Love Is The Drug”
  98. Fleece the 99%!
  99. That Pro-Coal Trump!
  100. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 168
  101. It’s Funny Because He Was Fired For Choosing Not to Freeze to Death
  102. Today in History
  103. The Virtue of Voters
  104. The Sick, Sad World of Donald Trump
  105. Death Wish VI: Paul Ryan and the Blue State Republicans
  106. Elephants
  107. The Morality of Politicians
  108. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 167
  109. The End of an Era
  110. No Progressive Should Support Joe Biden in 2020
  111. The New Gilded Age in One Image
  112. Draining the Swamp…of Consumer Protection
  113. The New Populist Republican Party Comes Full Circle
  114. Slow-Cooker Corn/Salmon/Bacon Chowder
  115. Donald Trump, Consoler-in-Chief
  116. Judicial Review and Contemporary Democratic Theory
  117. Supporters Try To Save Roy Moore With Very Subtle Campaign Tactic
  118. The Zizek Maneuver
  119. The Clinton Rules Still Apply
  120. Time for the GOP to send some more Thoughts & Prayers
  121. Foxconn Executives Will Get the Best Housing and Rations in Post-Apocalyptic Wisconsin
  122. Kansas: Trump’s John the Baptist
  123. Even the Worst Parts of America Have Lots of Great People
  124. I’m Racist, But I Like Dating Black People So Long As They Don’t Talk About Being Black. What Should I Do?
  125. American Politics, 2017
  126. Sin Is Sin
  127. Prematurely pro-fascist scum
  128. Another day in paradise
  129. The Libertarian Trump Operative and the Utter Dumbshit
  130. Killing the Keurigs: An American Comedy
  131. Life Under Zinke
  132. Everything Old Is Old Again
  133. Trump’s Man in Manila
  134. Bad Jobs and Terrorism
  135. The Retail Apocalypse
  136. White People Discover That Being Racist Assholes Has Consequences
  137. NFL Open Thread: Mike McCarthy, SUPERGENIUS
  138. Jimmy James: Capitalist Lion Tamer
  139. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 166
  140. Our Sensible Immigration Policy
  141. Linc Woulda Won
  142. Music Notes
  143. Trump Concerned about Putin’s Hurt Feelings
  144. Veterans Day
  145. Both Sides Do It, But the Democrat Party is More Neoliberal
  146. Democrats Should Never Compromise on Race
  147. This Day in Labor History: November 11, 1887
  148. The Duke Economics Department: Serving the Real Constituency of New Gilded Age Higher Education, Hedge Fund Managers
  149. Donna Brazile Explicitly Made False and Grossly Irresponsible Charges
  150. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 165
  151. Flashback Friday: Women Rock “White Rabbit”
  152. Just Be Thankful the Candidate of Goldman Sachs Lost
  153. Hillerman
  154. Today in American Ethnic Cleansing
  155. Repeal Prop 13
  156. Treason in Defense of Slavery in the Classroom
  157. The Four Stages of Republican Scandal Response
  158. If I were a carpenter
  159. Thou shall not covet
  160. Non-Guaranteed Contracts
  161. The Art of the Squeal
  162. The Perilous Night
  163. Donna Brazile on the Conservative Circuit
  164. Laugh this off
  165. Hot Take of the Day
  166. The World Turned Upside Down
  167. Meth-addict-in-chief identifies the real cause of Ed Gillespie’s defeat
  168. Doomed Democrats In Disarray
  169. Carter Page’s Dissertation
  170. First, We Take Olympia, Then We Take Albany
  171. This Day in Labor History: November 8, 1970
  172. Celebrating When We Can
  173. Tucker and Glenn Go Together Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter
  174. Suck It Racists
  175. Rich Men Find Pretending They Can Fly a Plane Irresistible
  176. Kindly Uncle Shelby
  177. Who says local politics are dull? Election Day open thread.
  178. Trump Truly Attracts the Best Talent, Carter Page Edition
  179. HILLARY RIGGED THE PRIMARIES
  180. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 164
  181. Today in American Ethnic Cleansing
  182. Mass shootings resulting in eight or more deaths in the USA since 1950
  183. The New Front in the Republican Battle Against Civil Rights
  184. Tim Burke says “Enough”
  185. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 163
  186. Samurai
  187. Perhaps the Most Depressing Site in America
  188. No way to prevent this
  189. NFL Week 9 Open Thread: FOOTBALL REASONS Edition
  190. A 150
  191. America Has a Policing Problem, Part ∞
  192. I would gladly supply the piano wire and machetes for the H.W.-Dubya vs. DOPUS death match
  193. Okey dokey
  194. The Future’s so Hot, We’ll Have to Move Inland
  195. Lock her up!
  196. Come with Me My Love to The Room of Love
  197. Escalation Around DPRK
  198. Trump “very frustrated” that he can’t (yet) order the FBI and DOJ to go after his political enemies
  199. The Third Term of the Second Bush Administration
  200. The DNC and Clinton: Separating Signal From Noise
  201. Flashback Friday: Proud Mary’s Hips and Hair Flips
  202. Throwing Shade
  203. Can We Have This Last 12 Months Over?
  204. *Dave Weigel voice* “He’s running”
  205. Epistemic Closure
  206. Consular Responsibilities
  207. Thursday Links
  208. Feel the Freedom!
  209. Game 7 Open Thread
  210. Perennially Whiny Maker of Bad Mass-Produced Pizza Whines Again
  211. If Daddy gives me two million pieces of candy, am I a disruptive candy entrepreneur?
  212. Acknowledging Mistakes: I Don’t Want To Be Lisa Bloom
  213. Charli’s Village
  214. Today Among the Noble Ideals of Amateurism

October 2017

  1. Halloween at the White House
  2. If Only John Breckenridge Would Have Won, We Wouldn’t Have Had Any of These Problems
  3. Happy Halloween, Marxists!
  4. The 95 Theses
  5. Fair and balanced
  6. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 162
  7. America’s State Television Assesses the Manafort Indictment
  8. The Muellerw’een Sessions
  9. Pardon me
  10. Will the Republican Party Be Accessories After the Fact? (SPOILER: Almost Certainly)
  11. A conspiracy against the United States
  12. The Next Democratic Supreme Court Nominee
  13. The Best People Attract the Best People
  14. DO SOMETHING Daddy Darling!
  15. The whiteness of the wail
  16. Stay Woke
  17. NFL/World Series Open Thread
  18. Pretending Your Publication Doesn’t Have A Race Problem
  19. My honor has been sullied by a scurillious poltroon
  20. “Too Inconsequential to Sue”
  21. Be More Than Mildly Nauseous: It’s James Comey Day
  22. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 161
  23. It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Mueller’ween
  24. The Quiet Parts Loud
  25. Weight problems
  26. The Media Can’t Quit Chasing Republican Snipe Hunts
  27. Sexy Existential Dread
  28. The newest threat to heteronormative relationships
  29. LGM Interviews: Elizabeth Nelson of The Paranoid Style
  30. Flashback Friday: The Haunting Wails Of “I Put A Spell On You”
  31. They Got Away With It
  32. Dishonest Actors at The Intercept
  33. Abolish ICE, Part the Infinity
  34. Why are so many NFL coaches so terrible at probabilistic decision making?
  35. Girardi Out
  36. Another man inconvenienced by women’s opinions – Update No. 2: There’s another Cillizza Tweet 4 Everything!
  37. A country where any little boy can grow up to be president
  38. Selling Florida Swampland
  39. The Feedback Loop of Derp
  40. More adventures in creating other new realities
  41. Donald Trump Lives in a Tom Lehrer Song
  42. How Your Clinton Rules Sausage Gets Made
  43. On Populism
  44. Superficially Like A Martyr: The Ballad of Jeff Flake
  45. Flake
  46. Both Sides Do It, But the Democrat Party is More Neoliberal
  47. Mexico 2
  48. At Least It’s Not the Yankees: World Series 2017
  49. Rand Paul: The Only Choice For REAL Progressives
  50. Flake out – Update: That’s what he said!
  51. The Rooster Bar
  52. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 160
  53. Suppressing Climate Scientists
  54. The Grifters
  55. The Donald Trump Memory Hole
  56. A Message for Monday Evening
  57. The Man Who Knew Nothing
  58. “Tory Men and Trumpy Measures”
  59. Monday Links
  60. When Is Dressing Up Like Hitler Okay?
  61. Bodies in Action
  62. This Day in Labor History: October 23, 1995
  63. Attacking People With Disabilities
  64. Today in Bad Headlines
  65. NFL Open Thread: Trent Richardson Takes Regina Edition
  66. Capitalism, Socialism, Forestry
  67. Sexual Predators Are Everywhere Too Much Power Resides
  68. Fantastic Planet
  69. Xi Jinping’s China, Trumpism, and International Order
  70. ALCS Open Thread
  71. “Ideological Extremism, Tempered by Incomptence”
  72. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 159
  73. Today Among the Adults In the White House Who Will Constrain Trump
  74. Espionage!
  75. Trump’s War on Women
  76. GAME OVER. Ted Nugent LARPer Destroys SnowflakeLibDems 5evar – Update: The Pooet Laureate speaks
  77. Tolkien’s Map
  78. Wisconsin’s Electoral Votes Were Stolen
  79. Interrogating ethnography
  80. No Country for Owned Men
  81. True Facts
  82. War with Iran
  83. Trump, Executive Power and the Constitution
  84. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 158
  85. The Perfect Trump SCOTUS Appointee
  86. This Day in Labor History: October 19, 1980
  87. New Gilded Age Priorities
  88. Fraud Meets White Supremacist
  89. Things Going Well in White House
  90. The Long-Term Disaster in Puerto Rico
  91. “And I Assure You, Pat Caddell Agrees With Me Entirely”
  92. TIDOS Down!
  93. Fun with Charts, Trump Edition
  94. A Humble, Impartial Umpire Just Calling Balls and Strikes
  95. Spitting Image
  96. Brutalism and Architectural Fashion
  97. Larry Lessig Can Afford to be Made to Look Ridiculous
  98. Where all the subservient racist pure white women who want to have and rear lots of pure white babies without help from the pure white sire at?
  99. Every man has got a breaking point
  100. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 157
  101. Is Eliminating the Tax on Estates of Over $5.49 Million Tilted Towards the Rich? Views Differ!
  102. Another Attack on Environmentalism
  103. Fun in the Archives
  104. Which Trump Cabinet Member Has the Very Least Self-Respect?
  105. A Contunuing Horror
  106. The Company Serving the Needs of the Permanent Rural Underclass
  107. Photographers in the Mist
  108. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 156
  109. Is the NFL Colluding Against Colin Kaepernick?
  110. Did You Ever Want to Know Dennis Prager’s Fetishes? No? Too Bad.
  111. NFL/MLB Playoffs Open Thread: Is the Smashmouth Exotic Enough For You? Edition
  112. The Rule of Capture, Returned
  113. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 155
  114. This Day in Labor History: October 15, 1914
  115. A Republican In Full
  116. Music Notes
  117. Your Apartheid Republicans
  118. The New Prison Labor Force
  119. Environmentalism and Population Growth
  120. Stop Filtering Local Democratic Politics Through the 2016 Primary
  121. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 154
  122. Unilateral Disarmament is Not a Great Plan
  123. The Republican War On Access to Healthcare Opens A New Front
  124. He’ll Fit Right In!
  125. It Is Truly Shocking That Trump is Governing Like A Republican
  126. Tech Transfer
  127. Sexual Harassment Began in 1963
  128. Everything Is Fine!
  129. The Lesson of Every Powerful Sexual Assaulter is That Hillary Clinton Is Bad
  130. The fantastic effectiveness of the right wing noise machine
  131. Do treatment options exist for MCP syndrome?*
  132. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 153
  133. Worst Timeline
  134. This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979
  135. Passes Selectively Given
  136. Go Trinidad!
  137. The GOP Is Still the Party of Trump
  138. The DSM and the DOPUS – Blame it on the drugs update
  139. Weinstein’s Reign of Terror
  140. Hypersonics
  141. Brought to you by white supremacy
  142. Hillary Clinton Was the More Dangerous Evil
  143. Movie Game
  144. ESPN: The Worldwide Leader in Pandering to Conservatives
  145. Playoff Open Thread
  146. Genocide Day
  147. Indian F-16s
  148. Born That Way
  149. Monday Linkage
  150. Making White Nationalism Respectable
  151. Draining the Swamp
  152. NFL Week 5/MLB Playoff Open Thread
  153. Latinos and Whiteness
  154. #LOLYankees
  155. No to Joe
  156. Both Sides Do It, But the Democrat Party is Not Only More Neoliberal But Also More Kinky
  157. The Party of Moore, Revisited
  158. The Further Adventures of Paul Ryan, Wonk of Principled Seriousity (TM)
  159. Game of Thrones/All Caught Up/Open Thread
  160. Both Sides Do It, But the Democrat Party Is More Neoliberal
  161. Democrats Should Not Intervene in the Brewing GOP Civil War
  162. #Flashback Friday: Technical Difficulties
  163. How Power Insulates Itself From Accountability
  164. Murphy will go spend time on the bed he made
  165. Ishiguro
  166. The Trump Doctrine
  167. Quality-Controlling the Revolution
  168. The Politics of Hope and the Politics of Realism
  169. The Party of Moore
  170. Today Among Our Conservative Betters
  171. The Amazing Story of Jaromir Jagr
  172. LGM Service to All Minnesotans
  173. Has Anthony Kennedy Been Pushed Too Far?
  174. Republican Exemplifies De Facto Republican Position on Abortion
  175. This Day in Labor History: October 4, 1978
  176. That Smashmouth Just Got More Exotic!
  177. Under Two Jags
  178. MLB Postseason Thread: Everything That Sucked Sucks Again
  179. Hot Takes! Get Your Nominal Left Vegas Shooting Hot Takes!
  180. The Immorality of Sports Fans
  181. Dear Democrats, Please Go After Roy Moore
  182. The Definition of a Superpower in Rapid Decline
  183. Words. Words? Words!
  184. UK and UL
  185. Beauty and the Beast
  186. The Banality of Information Warfare
  187. Pundits: They Love Political Norms that “Both Sides Do It,” Hate Accurate Descriptions of Republican Policies
  188. Sending Abortion Back to the States
  189. Annie Oakley
  190. The Next Steps in Republicans Facilitating Your Death by Gun
  191. Connecting Today’s Threads
  192. Tom Petty
  193. Idiotic Right-Wing Defenses of Gun Ownership
  194. The Racist Roots of Armed Self-Defense
  195. Ramon Casiano
  196. America’s First Mass Shooting Since Vegas
  197. “Terrorism” in America
  198. Las Vegas
  199. Cartoonishly Evil Incompetents Strike Again
  200. Michigan v. Chicago
  201. The Nation-State Strikes Back
  202. NFL Week 4 Open Thread: The Ongoing SUPERGENIUS of Tom Cable
  203. This Day in Labor History: October 1, 1833
  204. Buck Rogers

September 2017

  1. Donald Trump is a truly despicable human being
  2. The plutocratic logic of Hefner apologists
  3. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 152
  4. The Cost of Carelessness
  5. Bye-Bye!
  6. Today In Republican Swamp-Draining
  7. Janus and the Supreme Court’s Anti-Democratic Feedback Loop
  8. Flashback Friday: The Time Johnny Cash Covered Depeche Mode
  9. This Day in Labor History: September 29, 1917
  10. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 151
  11. Moore Is Less
  12. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
  13. Hugh Hefner Is Good Now
  14. Texas’ War on Liberals Has No Limits
  15. Deficits Don’t Matter (to Republicans)
  16. Janus v. AFSCME Council No. 31
  17. The Party of Ideas (TM)
  18. Articulating the Left Agenda
  19. Life in the Sweatshops
  20. Sealift, Airlift, and Distribution Infrastructure
  21. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 150
  22. RIP Hef: The Man Who Had It All
  23. The Jones Act
  24. Secrets of Make-Up
  25. Second Chances
  26. Today in the American Meritocracy
  27. Did Someone Say…EMAILS?
  28. Air Force One
  29. I Am Shocked, Shocked to Find Corruption in College Basketball
  30. Poetry
  31. Republican Lies About Taxes
  32. Sweatshops Kill
  33. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 149
  34. Moore Revisionism
  35. Dog Factory
  36. Pop for President!
  37. Corker
  38. Right wing academics and the paranoid style
  39. Vote Suppression Works
  40. To be continued: GOP on verge of abandoning current effort to wreck health care
  41. America’s Absurd Criminal Injustice Policy
  42. Minority Rule
  43. DOPUS – Aid to Puerto Rico hindered by the bigly blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in
  44. Education and Poverty
  45. Collins Is A No Again
  46. Loyalty
  47. The Gay Shoe Clerk
  48. Anything Going On?
  49. Today in America’s Healthy Political Culture
  50. What does an effective response to the disaster in Puerto Rico look like?
  51. An American Horror
  52. Todo ‘stá bien chévere
  53. Graham-Cassidy Gets Even Worse In Attempt to Attracts Votes of Immoral Legislators
  54. This Day in Labor History: September 25, 1891
  55. Did Someone Say…EMAILS?
  56. As a fool returns to his folly, so a Republican returns to the corpse of a white soldier wrapped in a flag
  57. NFL Open Thread: Apres Le Trump
  58. Robert Kraft, Patriots join the ranks of the disinvited
  59. Chris Cillizza briefly shares ZIP code with a clue
  60. “You didn’t ask me, you asked him!”
  61. Uppity Negroes play race card against plainspoken racist
  62. It’s Possible that Building a City of 20 Million On Top of a Drained Lake Bed Was Poorly Conceived
  63. A True Maverick and an American Hero
  64. Nationalize Credit Reports
  65. Julian Assange Has Thoughts About Lincoln
  66. Christian University Values
  67. Should we rely on Senator Maverick Mavericktasticness (R-Maverick) to save Obamacare?
  68. One Stake in the Heart Isn’t Enough. Drive in Another!
  69. Technically America
  70. We’re So Cillizza’d
  71. Did Sanders Provide a Blueprint for Progressive Foreign Policy?
  72. Flashback Friday: The “Raga-Rock Riot” of “Paint It Black”
  73. There Is No Peak Schlichter
  74. The Cruel Radicalism of Cassidy-Graham
  75. “Hearts and Minds”
  76. And the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature Goes To….Roy Moore!
  77. What’s it like inside the white supremacist movements of the 21st century?
  78. The Most Pro-Vampire Administration in American History
  79. Republicans are Sincerely Committed to the Equal Sovereign Dignitude of the States
  80. Bill Cassidy, Still Giving Cynical Liars a Bad Name
  81. Climate Change as Neocolonialism
  82. Cassidy-Graham is a Disgraceful Sham
  83. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 148
  84. Who’s got a boil on his semprini, wind and the pox?
  85. The Ballad of the Green Beret
  86. Laber of Love
  87. Kalashnikov!
  88. “Totally Destroy”
  89. I’m Confident That It Will Reveal That Donald Trump Was Always Scrupulously Ethical
  90. American Corporate Leaders: Truly the Savior of the Asian Working Classes
  91. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 147
  92. This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1945
  93. Bill Cassidy Gives Cynical Liars A Bad Name
  94. Enthusiastic contrafibularities
  95. Look Over Here!
  96. A Mann and a plan
  97. Zombie ACA Repeal to Again Terrorize Populace
  98. Right-Wing Media: The New Frontier
  99. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 146
  100. This Day in Labor History: September 18, 1873
  101. Music Notes
  102. Milo Yiannopoulos spurs Charles Murray to speaks the truth. For once.
  103. Perfect pairings
  104. Environmental Racism is an Every Day Occurrence
  105. Going to a Methodist Church? You Might As Well Shout “Hail Satan”
  106. Player Character Blogging: D&D 5th Edition, Session 3
  107. Could California Keep Trump Off the Ballot in 2020?
  108. Making Colonialism Great Again
  109. NFL Week Two Open Thread: LOL Colts Edition
  110. H B-day?
  111. The Highly Principled Principles of Mike Pompeo, Man of Principle (TM)
  112. Trump Lickspittle Tries To Arrange Pardon of Trump Lickspittle, Act As Pulling Guard For Vladimir Putin
  113. Hang Up And Don’t Listen
  114. Harry Dean Stanton, RIP
  115. Today in penis superiority theory: Pissing about makes boys better at physics
  116. It’s not prejudice, it’s perception
  117. ESPN’s Near-Capitulation to Trump
  118. The Emperor’s New “Clothes”
  119. Obamacare repeal – this time with extra grift
  120. Harvard’s Week Gets Even Worse
  121. Flashback Friday: The Long Story of “Bohemian Rhapsody”
  122. This Day in Labor History: September 15, 1845
  123. Grant Hart, 1961-2017
  124. Equifax Should Not Be In Business By 2018
  125. Evil, Meet Evil
  126. Single-Payer and Generational Expectations
  127. The Lessons of Colorado
  128. Song Fight Club
  129. “Please Forward a Second Copy of Your Application Materials to Tucker Carlson”
  130. General Update Thoughts
  131. The Ice Pick
  132. Music Notes
  133. What an Age We Live In
  134. “The Sinner”
  135. Both Sides Do It, But the Democrat Party is More Neoliberal
  136. The Fiercely Mavericky Independence of Donald Trump
  137. A Fiendish Cartoon Teaching Kids To Question Authority
  138. The Single-Payer Bill
  139. Why Equifax Happened
  140. De Blasio and Rewarding Progressive Governance
  141. No Tax Breaks for Amazon
  142. Flawed Employment Numbers
  143. NFL Teams Putting Politics Above Football
  144. 9/11
  145. Intelligence Gathering and Tech
  146. Ag gag 3
  147. A Prominent Public Figure Wrote A Book
  148. Never Forget
  149. Will Republicans Save Dreamers?
  150. Movie Fight Club
  151. 9/11 Jumper Photos and Taboo Memorial
  152. Imagine How Bad Things Would Be If We Had a Republican President!
  153. Mirabile dictator! Sitting U.S. president may discuss race with an African-American.
  154. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 145
  155. NFL Week 1 Open Thread: NFC Picks
  156. Progress
  157. They Have Come for the Rohingya
  158. Today is the Day Donald Trump Destroyed the Two-Party System
  159. Roger Goodell Undermined by His Own Incompetence and Authoritarianism
  160. Yes, I’m a Woman
  161. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 144
  162. Pallid bowel movement evacuates Florida
  163. Planning, Florida, and Irma
  164. Fire
  165. Dear Max, Please Never Speak Publicly About Health Care Again
  166. Flashback Friday Will Return To Regularly Scheduled Programming
  167. The Fox News Effect
  168. “Timing is the thing, it’s true…”
  169. Today in Campus P.C.
  170. Friday Links
  171. Dear Slate, You’ll Never Believe What a Horrible Person I Am
  172. Inevitable Patriots Undefeated Season Totally Inevitable
  173. I hope each meal ends with a teeny tiny gold-flake thin mint
  174. 2017 AFC Preview: Finally, Those Lovable, Scrappy Underdogs From Boston Catch a Break
  175. Evacuation
  176. On the Imaginary “Pre-Identity Politics” Democratic Party
  177. The Art of Whiteness
  178. Ain’t the Free Market Grand?
  179. Race Baiting for Votes
  180. A Man in Paul Ryan’s Position Can’t Afford to be Made to Look Ridiculous
  181. The Washington National Cathedral will remove a memorial to Lee & Jackson, let the Dumbest Take Sweepstakes begin
  182. Glamour Profession
  183. Irma
  184. In its majestic equality, the law allows rich and poor alike to pay $100K for access to the DOPUS
  185. Corruption and Chinese Civil-Military Relations
  186. Ending DACA
  187. Sesame Street Talks Natural Disaster Anxiety
  188. Some Principles for Progressive Foreign Policy: A Guest Post by Yakov Feygin and Alex Hazanov
  189. Hatchet Jobs I Can Use
  190. Actually, You Don’t
  191. Russian Arms Exports
  192. Self-Reinforcing Misogyny
  193. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 143
  194. “Best QB of the 2012 NFL Draft Class” Is Not a Close Question
  195. Meet Your American Sweatshops
  196. Was Don Blankenship Not Available?
  197. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 142
  198. When You Elect a Racist President Running on a Racist Platform, Racism is What You Get
  199. Let’s Politicize Everything!
  200. Pretty Clearly All About Supporting the Troops
  201. If Your Friends Cite Hillbilly Elegy Favorably, You Should Mock Them
  202. Walter Becker RIP
  203. He Is What He’s Always Been
  204. Labor Historians, the White Working Class, and Trump Voters
  205. Are Crackpot Pro-Putin/Trump Conspiracy Theories Credible? Views Differ
  206. Trump’s True Base: Law Enforcement
  207. Comrade Detective
  208. How the Courts Have Devastated Organized Labor
  209. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 141
  210. Today Is the Day John Schneider Became President
  211. Donald Trump, Super Dealmaking Genius
  212. Hi, It’s Me, Your Sweet Summer Child
  213. Flashback Friday: Teen Girls’ Self Esteem Ballad “Lovefool”
  214. Both Sides Do It, But the Democrat Party Is More Neoliberal
  215. I Love Small Wings and I Cannot Lie
  216. Republicans and Workers: Rhetoric and Reality
  217. Medicare for All
  218. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 140

August 2017

  1. Trump: A Bad President for Truckers (And Almost Everyone Else)
  2. If You Have Spotted A Republican You Think Cares About the Deficit, You Are The Sucker
  3. Driverless Cars and Sprawl
  4. Player Character Blogging: D&D 5th Edition, Session 2
  5. FDR’s Austerity Rhetoric and the Experimentation of the New Deal
  6. Thursday Odds and Ends
  7. Caring For Children During A Disaster: An Open Thread
  8. Rents
  9. Minor New Deal Historiography Correction
  10. What Are the Fascists at ICE Up To Today?
  11. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 139
  12. The Party of Ideas (TM)
  13. Gulf Coast Texas and American Infrastructure
  14. “Don’t Be Evil”
  15. It is truly shocking that Donald Trump was elected president of the United States
  16. The Federalist Is A Publication Of Great Seriousity
  17. The Most Important Factor In 2020 Will Be Donald Trump
  18. What Should a Left Foreign Policy Look Like?
  19. Doklam 2
  20. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 138
  21. Pivoting
  22. Tots
  23. If you’re ever in Houston
  24. It’s Time For Some Regime Theory
  25. The Curious Longing for a Presidential Daddy
  26. Harvey and Climate Change
  27. Statues We Can All Get Behind
  28. Trump’s Generation and Civil War Education
  29. Rules of the Road
  30. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 137
  31. Young McCardle had a dumb
  32. Ivanka’s Moderating Influence (TM)
  33. He’s Our Asshole
  34. Today In Neoliberal McCarthyite Hysteria
  35. The Ratings
  36. Today in Dishonest Arguments Against the Minimum Wage: “Won’t Somebody Think of the Children”
  37. How to Deal With Trolls, A Comprehensive Guide
  38. Trump’s Plantation
  39. Republicans Own Trump (And Arpaio)
  40. Deportee
  41. Houston and Natural Disasters
  42. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 136
  43. Mistakes Were Made
  44. Can We Not Give the Forced Marriage Lobby Any Ideas?
  45. Drain the Swamp, Comrades
  46. GoT S7 Finale Open Thread
  47. Harvey Drowning Houston
  48. How IDENTITY POLITICS, Which Were Invented in 1980, Destroyed the Democratic Party
  49. Mayweather-McGregor?
  50. Trump’s Favorite Torturer
  51. Trump Pardons His Governance Model
  52. There’s GOLD in them there headboards!
  53. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 135
  54. This Day in Labor History: August 26, 1970
  55. My Work Here is Done
  56. Make America White Again
  57. Ketchup: The Condiment of Fascists
  58. SEIU and Midwestern Politics
  59. Man Who Knows Nothing About American Political History Is Here to Lecture You About American Politics
  60. Priorities
  61. NoLabelsUnity20!
  62. No War But Trade War!
  63. Flashback Friday: Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
  64. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
  65. The NFL, Quarterbacks, and Racism
  66. Beltway Fantasies: Primarying Trump Edition
  67. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 134
  68. I Date Nate (So You Won’t Have To)
  69. Flank Steak…in a Crockpot?
  70. Trump’s Oxygen Supply and Campaign Counterfactuals
  71. Sanders-Trump Voters
  72. Bob Menendez and Constitutional Hardball
  73. She’s Not Even Wearing a Hairshirt!
  74. Does the Virginia GOP Officially Endorse Treason in Defense of Slavery?
  75. In American Law, Black Lives Matter Less
  76. Trump Might As Well Just Hire Jack Abramoff and Get It Over With
  77. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 133
  78. That’ll Leave a Mark
  79. Lyin’ Ryan
  80. Book News!
  81. Joss Whedon’s Wandering Pants Can’t Slay Feminism
  82. Carson at HUD
  83. Great Statesman Delivers Stirring Address
  84. Team Trump Ready for Business!
  85. Since the Beginning of Time, Man Has Yearned to Preemptively Defend the Reputation of Robby Mook
  86. Reading in a Texas Prison
  87. White Supremacist Statues
  88. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 132
  89. BBs Off Korea
  90. Don’t Look At Us — We Didn’t Do It
  91. Progress Report
  92. USS John McCain
  93. SpyGate Was Also a Minor Scandal
  94. On Freddie
  95. The Trump Administration Wipes Its Feet on the Fourth Amendment
  96. The Last Days of Megafauna
  97. College Republicans and the Racist Core of Republican Leadership
  98. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 131
  99. Politically Correct Scott Adams
  100. The Many Paths to Universal Coverage
  101. Donald the Dove
  102. Ch-ch-changes!
  103. Eclipse Mania!
  104. Jerry Lewis
  105. Mazda isn’t Wankeling around this time
  106. Democrats Are Doomed
  107. Template Revision
  108. The chief causes of TrumperTantrums: Lawyers, Mondays, uneven paint jobs, surprises, warm woolen mittens that make his hands look small…
  109. The World’s Most [Your Descriptor Here] Mansion
  110. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 130
  111. This Day in Labor History: August 20, 1976
  112. Dick Gregory, RIP
  113. Mar-a-Nogo
  114. Treason in Defense of Slavery Statue Problem Solved!
  115. Himmlerian Slip
  116. BYRD!!!!!!!!
  117. USS Indianapolis
  118. Of Course America’s Dumbest President Would Embrace America’s Dumbest Industry
  119. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 129
  120. “This is so incredibly intellectually dishonest that I yearn for the craven cynicism of Mitch McConnell”
  121. How Bannon Mattered
  122. Pass the Popcorn!
  123. Abannondoned! I’ll believe it when I see it. Update + 1
  124. Bannon Out
  125. Showing His Assange
  126. THEY.DIDN’T.EVEN.HAVE.PERMITS.
  127. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” – Evelyn Hall
  128. Flashback Friday: The Enduring Legacy Of “Strange Fruit”
  129. USS Fitzgerald
  130. But hey, how’s infrastructure week going?
  131. Abolish ICE: Workplace Safety Edition
  132. Our Racist President Endorses Historical Myths About Racist Mass Murder
  133. Wikileaks refused to publish massive hack of Russian government intel during 2016 US presidential campaign
  134. Calling a Fascist a Fascist
  135. Hollow
  136. The Dunning-Kruger school
  137. The Dowd Report
  138. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 128
  139. The Bannon Call
  140. What Concrete Steps Will Congressional Republicans Take After Trump Announced His Support for NeoNazis?
  141. Liberal hypocrisy exposed!!
  142. Rural People of Color
  143. Who Still Supports The Fond Remembrance of Treason in Defense of Slavery?
  144. Fortunately, Nobody Like This Ever Became a Major World Leader Again
  145. BREAKING: A photo of the world’s greatest best beautiful high quality business president’s ego
  146. The End of Softselling Treason in Defense of Slavery
  147. Republican White Supremacy
  148. Player Character Blogging: D&D 5th Edition, Session 1
  149. Governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan 2 years ago
  150. Wednesday Morning Linkage…
  151. Republican Political Elites Today
  152. If History Has Taught Us Anything, It’s That Robert E. Lee Considered Violence in Defense of White Supremacy Unconscionable
  153. Surely, This Is It For Trump
  154. Trump melts down at press conference
  155. Charlotte Law School closes
  156. The Self-Reinforcing Benefits of Deregulation For Republicans
  157. Both Sides Do It, But the Democratic Party is More Neoliberal
  158. NFL Draft Follies
  159. Durham: Redeeming Itself 5% for Christian Laettner
  160. Today In Our Wall Street Betters
  161. Are American Political Parties Rapidly Converging Toward the Center? (SPOILER: Are You Insane?)
  162. The Magic Day We Overcame Racism
  163. Criticizing Trump Is Not Enough
  164. A History Of Looking the Other Way
  165. The deeply mysterious semiotics of the Unite the Right rally
  166. They didn’t get my good side!
  167. The Nation Really Should Stop Publishing the Conspiracy Theories of Open Propagandists
  168. Submitted Without Comment
  169. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 127
  170. Yes, Trump is a Threat to Liberal Democracy. And You Should be Worried.
  171. Trump’s Capture of the Republican Party is Far From Mysterious
  172. Breckinridge and Morgan
  173. Trump and Charlottesville
  174. “But don’t forget it’s me who put you where you are now”
  175. Let’s not argue and bicker about who killed who
  176. Cillizzagism
  177. In Unexpected Development, Nazi March Turns Violent
  178. Fighting Right to Work a Person to Death
  179. The Stadium Scam: Urban Planning Disaster Edition
  180. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 126
  181. Putin Can’t Melt Steel Beams
  182. Everybody Hates TrumpCare
  183. Friday Odds and Ends: I Want to Live
  184. Gillibrand and the Path to Universal Healthcare
  185. Flashback Friday: The Long Soundtrack Shelf Life of “Mad World”
  186. That’s the Leak of Love
  187. Not that this would stop Trump, but….
  188. How Republican Governance Has Crushed New Mexico
  189. How Western Industrial Interests Are Relying on Trump to Eviscerate Decades of Environmental Protections
  190. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 125
  191. When Our Technological Futurism Fetish Really Misses the Point
  192. Trump thanks Putin for expelling US diplomats from Russia because it cuts the government payroll
  193. Your opposite job
  194. BREAKING! The White House is Absolutely Bonkers
  195. Breitbartian outraged by women in long dresses
  196. First They Came For Nixon, And…
  197. The UAW and Mississippi
  198. Paul Ryan, Serious Man of Conservative Principle (TM)
  199. Trumpian Unpredictability Remains a Foreign Policy Liability
  200. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 124
  201. BREAKING! UNPRECEDENTED SIGHTING! MUST CREDIT LGM!
  202. One Day in America
  203. White House job security means keeping Orangegoliant’s ego well-fed
  204. The Myth of the Obama-Trump Voter
  205. Asymmetric Polarization and the Courts
  206. Some Wednesday Links
  207. The Future of Russia’s Navy
  208. Democrats In Disarray
  209. “A Roster of Opportunities”
  210. Misty water-colored memories
  211. The Missiles!
  212. Zumwalt! In 3D!
  213. Glen Campbell
  214. Glen Campbell
  215. Mend your speech a little
  216. Neoconfederate Attorney General Attacks Voting Rights
  217. Happy International (Relations) Cat Day!
  218. BREAKING! Many People Genuinely Think Donald Trump Is Unfit For Office
  219. Doklam
  220. Donner Party Conservatism
  221. BREAKING! American Institutions Overrepresent Rural Conservatives
  222. Both Sides Do It, But Democrats Are More Neoliberal
  223. Trump’s Cycle of White Resentment
  224. Why the Right-Wing War on George Soros Matters
  225. Bold Truth Teller Bravely Stands Up to the Deep State
  226. The Republican Establishment Was And Is All-In On Trump
  227. Today in the Republican States of America
  228. What’s worse, this article by Greenwald or this article by Greenwald?
  229. Everything Always Comes Up Belichick
  230. I Am Also Delighted In Many Ways By This Verdict!
  231. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 123
  232. Warning: This Take is HIGHLY FLAMMABLE
  233. Useful Candidate Evaluations Are Holistic, Not Ad Hoc Searches For Arbitrary Dealbreakers
  234. Democracy and Uncertainty in Brazil

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