2018

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December 2018

1. 31 DecA Year of Watching TV
2. 31 DecAmerica, How Ya Doing?
3. 31 DecNYE Links
4. 31 Dec2018: A Historian’s Reading
5. 31 DecBest Music of 2018
6. 31 DecElizabeth Warren is running for president
7. 31 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 384
8. 31 DecTrumpism is the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel
9. 30 DecLGM Beer Talk: Decolonize Beer Culture
10. 30 DecNFL Open Thread Week 17
11. 30 DecThe Assassination of Robert Kennedy by the Coward Duran Duran
12. 30 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 30, 1828
13. 30 DecAgainst the Trumpism of the Center
14. 29 DecSpeeches and Herb
15. 29 DecDonald Trump Sticks it to Neoliberal Elites Again
16. 29 DecTrump’s Latino Base
17. 29 DecSolidarity in this Age of Hate
18. 29 DecTreacherous memory: Brett Kavanaugh and the summer of 1982
19. 29 DecAnything Good Happening on the Environmental Front?
20. 29 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 383
21. 28 DecA correction to the correction
22. 28 DecHow Your Generating Campus PC Panics With Bullshit Random Andecdotes Sausage Gets Made
23. 28 DecEmployers and Their Lackeys Have Lied About the Minimum Wage Since 1938
24. 28 DecTV of 2018
25. 28 DecTrump Can Be Defeated In Spite of the Constitution
26. 28 DecThe Prison Labor Complex Sucks In Undocumented Immigrants
27. 28 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 382
28. 28 DecThe Endless Debt of Trade School Graduates
29. 27 DecGettysburg
30. 27 DecShe said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
31. 27 DecWar on the IP Front
32. 27 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 381
33. 27 DecDo You Partake In The New Freedoms?: Talking Coen Brothers With Adam Nayman
34. 26 DecGriftonomics, college bowl game edition
35. 26 DecIt’s a disgrace, what’s happening in our country
36. 26 DecForever
37. 26 DecLiving in An Old Boy’s World
38. 25 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 380
39. 25 DecI Want to Live In A Tacky Gold-Plated Building On the Upper East Side And Never Go Down in the Street
40. 25 DecChristmas Morning Open Thread
41. 24 DecChristmas Eve Open Thread
42. 24 DecWell, That’s Reassuring
43. 24 DecAn Interesting Play, to Some
44. 24 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 379
45. 23 DecNFL Open Thread: Too Big to Blackball Edition
46. 23 DecThe Precise Moment When Soviet Communism Went Bad
47. 23 DecSecularism for the Win?
48. 23 DecThe Nation Continues Failing Native People
49. 23 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 378
50. 22 DecOn Tortillas
51. 22 DecTaking Rurality Seriously
52. 22 DecPresident Doocy’s Shutdown
53. 22 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 377
54. 21 DecRhode Island’s Heavy News Cycle
55. 21 DecThe Greatest Crime in Human History: Questioning the Right of Old White Men to Power
56. 21 DecPriorities
57. 21 DecSometimes Santa Gives You What You Ask For
58. 21 DecRBG Underwent Surgery For Lung Cancer Earlier Today
59. 21 DecThe Great Unravelling? It’s “Lights, Cameras, Action!” again for American Geopolitical Suicide.
60. 21 DecPolicy and Process on Syria
61. 21 DecLike a wheel inside a wheel
62. 21 DecThe Cruelty Is The Point
63. 21 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 376
64. 20 DecMattis Out
65. 20 DecThe United States’ Responsibility for Central American Migration
66. 20 DecThese are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand
67. 20 DecThe Green New Deal: A Step in the Right Direction
68. 20 DecA Divided Labor Movement
69. 20 Dec10 Favorite Books I Read in 2018
70. 20 DecElon Musk, SUPERGENIUS
71. 20 DecJeremiah Wright, Michelle Obama, and Black Liberation Theology
72. 20 DecA contributor from day one
73. 20 DecGreat Power Competition Drives Global Engagement
74. 20 DecThis well oiled machine shall be called Griftbot* 2020
75. 20 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 375
76. 19 DecLast-Minute Holiday Gifts!
77. 19 DecHot Historical Takes from the New Gilded Age
78. 19 DecA Lot of Sleazy Things
79. 19 DecDeep Thoughts From the Office of Orrin Hatch
80. 19 DecA Political History of the Future: Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
81. 19 DecWhy Do These Users Keep Getting Their Privacy Violated?
82. 19 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 374
83. 19 DecApology Not Offered
84. 18 DecA garbage president for garbage people
85. 18 DecTrump agrees to shut down his scam “charity”
86. 18 DecAmerica’s Overcompensated and Underachieving Elites, The Teenage Years
87. 18 DecPeople Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 7 (Chapter 6)
88. 18 DecLooking Forward to JS Shokaku
89. 18 DecAre the Lizard People controlling the Intellectual Dark Web?
90. 18 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 373
91. 18 DecThese Things I Have Recently Learned
92. 17 DecAn Anatomy of A Ratfucking, Pt. 3: Discouraging Democratic Constituencies
93. 17 DecThe psychological economics of sports fandom
94. 17 DecNuke It From Orbit, It’s the Only Way to be Sure
95. 17 DecDonald Trump Continues to Pay Off for Coal Miners
96. 17 DecLos Angeles: The Next Frontier in the Teachers’ Strike Wave
97. 17 DecWhen Will Conservatives Understand They Aren’t Funny?
98. 17 DecAn Anatomy of A Ratfucking, Pt. 2: Working With the Worst of America
99. 17 DecObama-Trump Voters
100. 17 DecMonday Links…
101. 17 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 372
102. 17 DecAnatomy of a Ratfucking
103. 16 DecShe needs to smile more or less
104. 16 DecThe Unbearable Conventionality of Our Tech Betters
105. 16 DecOur Women in Washington
106. 16 DecMore hats for Mulvaney
107. 16 DecIt All Started With the Border and That’s Still Where It is Today
108. 16 DecNFL Open Thread: Fantasy Playoff Edition
109. 16 DecDonald Trump, Friend of the Working Man
110. 16 DecQuick Film Rec: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
111. 16 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 371
112. 15 DecNo Democrats Are Talking About Their Next Governing Agenda, If You Ignore All the Democrats Who Are
113. 15 DecScott Walker Leaves As He Came In
114. 15 DecDraining the swamp
115. 15 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 15, 1921
116. 15 DecThis Is The Future Republicans Want
117. 14 DecAmerican Political Economy Has the Ricketts
118. 14 DecThe first black president
119. 14 DecSondra Locke
120. 14 DecBowl Mania Final Reminder
121. 14 DecDecisions!
122. 14 DecSnowflakes
123. 14 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 14, 1945
124. 14 DecAnd This Omelet Tastes Like Shit
125. 13 DecJared Kushner under consideration for White House chief of staff
126. 13 DecThe Walking Death Of A Once Great Magazine
127. 13 DecDonald Trump is as popular as ever among Republicans, and has a good shot at being re-elected
128. 13 DecWhat If Trump Thinks He Needs to Win to Stay Out of Jail?
129. 13 DecElla Baker’s Radical Democratic Vision
130. 13 DecThere’s no description for it
131. 13 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 370
132. 12 DecDonald Trump’s Racism Has Material Consequences
133. 12 DecIn Plain Sight
134. 12 DecThe fixer
135. 12 DecStone cold sober as a matter of fact
136. 12 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 369
137. 12 DecConfidence Game
138. 11 DecCNN: Please ignore the climate change deniers we pay to appear on CNN to engage in climate change denial
139. 11 DecMake America More Democratic
140. 11 DecPelosi and Schumer convince DJT to take responsibility for something
141. 11 DecNo Labels, No Method, No Guru, No Teacher, No Clue
142. 11 DecMovie pitch or Politico piece?
143. 11 DecClimate Change Realities Are about Power and Poverty
144. 11 DecPop Culture Notes:” Pacific Rim: Uprising:,””Wreck-It Ralph Breaks the Internet,” “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms”
145. 11 DecCameron’s Folly Continues to Unravel
146. 11 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 368
147. 11 DecReturn of the King(s)
148. 11 DecRevenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold
149. 10 DecGood Faith Advice From Your Mortal Enemies
150. 10 DecWho will be America’s Next Top Chief of Staff?
151. 10 DecMark Sanchez KNOWS THE OFFENSE
152. 10 DecIzumo Upgrade
153. 10 DecThat So-Called Smocking Gun
154. 10 DecLGM Bowl Mania!
155. 10 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 367
156. 10 DecIs Harold Baines the worst Hall of Fame pick ever?
157. 10 DecThe Wages of Coal
158. 10 DecAyers And Out
159. 9 DecNFL Open Thread: Exhuming McCarthy
160. 9 DecBaby, It’s Warm IN MY PANTS
161. 9 DecI said, Lord, take me to Midtown I’m just lookin’ for some Kush
162. 9 DecTaking offense
163. 9 DecDid Someone Say…EMAILS?
164. 9 DecA pattern is emerging. A pattern of stars, and bars.
165. 8 Dec“Very fine people, on both sides”
166. 8 DecMusic Notes
167. 8 DecIf You Don’t Count the Games They Lost, the 1980 Seattle Mariners Were the Greatest Team in Baseball History
168. 8 DecThe Russian’s apprentice
169. 8 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 366
170. 8 DecThe Party Of Davis
171. 7 DecIndividual 1
172. 7 DecTrump Is As Much Symptom As Cause
173. 7 DecThe Return of the Administration of Kindly Old Moderate George Bush
174. 7 DecTruth or Both Sides Do It: You Can Choose Only One
175. 7 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 365
176. 7 DecPresident DSM-V
177. 7 DecCrude And Feckless
178. 6 DecEarthrise
179. 6 DecElizabeth Warren is apparently sorry about that DNA test
180. 6 DecMore Dispatches from the Administration of George Bush, Kindly Old Moderate
181. 6 DecOrganize the Charters
182. 6 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 364
183. 6 DecCultural Marxism as fascist code
184. 6 DecCheneyism Is No Better Than Trumpism
185. 6 DecNC Supreme Court
186. 5 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 363
187. 5 DecConsider the lobster
188. 5 DecMore Dispatches from the Administration of Kindly Old Moderate George Bush
189. 5 DecRepublicans Hate Democracy
190. 5 DecThe Election of Donald Trump Was A Crushing Blow To the Neoliberal Elite
191. 5 DecViolating the Unequal Protection clause
192. 4 DecCapital uber alles
193. 4 DecNot the Onion: Liberal Order Edition
194. 4 DecWe Hate Our Paying Customers
195. 4 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 362
196. 4 DecNostalgia About the Past Doesn’t Help Us Understand the Past, the Present, or the Future
197. 4 DecHere to explain earthquakes is a man who says the Earth is flat and carried through space on the backs of four elephants…
198. 4 DecLet’s stop using euphemisms; American democracy is under attack
199. 4 DecGeorge Bush did nothing at all
200. 4 DecRepublicans: It Is Illegitimate For Democrats to Govern
201. 3 DecAim high, shoot low
202. 3 DecA premature eulogy
203. 3 Dec“A Dark Day for Hungary”
204. 3 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 361
205. 3 DecOperation Red Sea
206. 3 DecEvery Accusation is a Confession, Vote Fraud Fraud Edition
207. 3 DecTrump Is More A Symptom Than a Cause, Cont’d
208. 2 Dec“Walk-on? That’s a walk-off, that’s what this is.”
209. 2 DecSexy Talk Time
210. 2 DecNFL Open Thread: Thank You For Not Coaching Edition
211. 2 DecYou Can’t Expect Someone Responsible For As Many As 800 Words A Week To Come Up With New Ideas
212. 2 DecYou’re Not Going to Believe This
213. 1 DecKindly George Bush
214. 1 DecThe U.S. Senate’s Historic Vote on Yemen, with Some Historical Perspective
215. 1 DecFighter vs. Bomber III
216. 1 DecSweet Potato Latkes for Hannukah
217. 1 DecBush 2
218. 1 DecGeorge H.W. Bush

November 2018

1. 30 NovA Bridge Too Farr
2. 30 NovMore fascinating editorial decisions from the Paper of News of Record (TM)
3. 30 NovA Randroid Fraud Departs In A Cloud of Pure Bullshit
4. 30 NovFighter vs. Bomber II
5. 30 NovAnd Really Lean Into It
6. 30 NovField Commander Cohen Was Our Most Important Turncoat
7. 29 NovThe Voter Fraud Fraud Has Real Victims
8. 29 NovAnd I said to myself: This is the business we’ve chosen
9. 29 NovLinks 6
10. 29 NovThe 20 Film Challenge
11. 29 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 360
12. 29 NovWhy Second Trimester Abortions Should Be Legal
13. 28 NovPseudo-economists with perfect records of never having been right about anything write unintentionally hilarious hagiography of Donald Trump
14. 28 NovIs It Possible to Overestimate the Gullibility of the Fox News Viewer?
15. 28 NovMore From the Worst Cabinet Ever
16. 28 NovPatterson Stuff!
17. 28 NovMaking Allies
18. 28 Nov“Is Never Good Enough For You?”: Nancy Smash And Social Security
19. 28 NovOn Mississippi
20. 28 NovEconomic anxiety at Duke Medical School
21. 28 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 359
22. 28 NovSenseless Tons of Garbage From Made-Up Tiny Oceans
23. 27 NovPolitical correctness, NFL edition
24. 27 NovLordstown and “Work in America”
25. 27 NovCollins Gonna Collins
26. 27 NovThese Showrunners Are So Hacky
27. 27 NovWhat You Do to Survive
28. 27 NovThucydides on the Nature and Character of War
29. 27 NovDonald Trump’s Anti-Interventionist Instincts
30. 27 NovThe missionary position
31. 27 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 358
32. 27 NovAlways Be Lying
33. 26 NovDonald Trump wants to start a worldwide US propaganda network
34. 26 NovMoulton seeks nonegotiations with Pelosi
35. 26 NovThe Misogyny Tax
36. 26 NovA Political History of the Future: State Tectonics by Malka Older
37. 26 NovBecause They’re Wreckable
38. 26 NovAnnals of efficient market theory, NFL coaches edition
39. 26 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 26, 1931
40. 25 NovHow Can Democrats Survive Without Winning the Votes of White Alabama?
41. 25 NovIt’s Really Hard to Imagine Why Baseball Has Lost Black Fans
42. 25 NovThe Beltway Media Sure is Excited for Mittens
43. 25 NovNFL Open Thread: Vegas Edition
44. 25 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 357
45. 25 NovCindy Hyde-Smith Hearts Segregation
46. 24 NovOn the Vile Technology of Self-Checkout Counters
47. 24 NovAmerican Corporate Demands on the State to Police Workers: Global Edition
48. 24 NovTen Strikes: Providence Talk
49. 24 NovThis Seems Suboptimal
50. 24 NovDoes the rise of Donald Trump mark a new era in American politics?
51. 24 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 356
52. 23 NovDid either Donald Trump’s overt racism or faux economic populism get him elected president?
53. 23 Nov“We Need A Positive Governing Agenda, And We Should Let Erskine Bowles and Joe Lieberman Figure It Out”
54. 23 NovWorking class heroes
55. 23 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 355
56. 22 NovBe Thankful the #FiveWhiteGuys 90s Nostalgia Tour Is Over
57. 22 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 354
58. 21 NovWe Are All Part of the Same Hypocrisy
59. 21 NovGriftonomics
60. 21 NovAll they have to do is run around the city while playing a horn
61. 21 NovA Death on North Sentinel Island
62. 21 NovAll the rudiments of hatred are present everywhere
63. 21 NovThis I Believe
64. 21 NovJ 31
65. 21 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 21, 1927
66. 21 NovSo many scams, so little time
67. 20 NovTrump tried to order the DOJ to prosecute Clinton and Comey
68. 20 NovFormer MSU president Lou Anna Simon charged with two felonies for lying about Nassar investigation
69. 20 NovIt’s Almost as Though “Pro-Life” Advocates Aren’t
70. 20 NovHis Kinda Guy
71. 20 NovDid Someone Say…EMAILS?
72. 20 NovLast Word on the INF… for Now
73. 20 NovPeople Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 6 (Chapter 5)
74. 20 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 353
75. 20 NovGiving Money to an Elite Private University is the Worst Kind of “Charity”
76. 19 NovThis Is Just Sad
77. 19 NovAlways Projection: The Invention of Political Correctness
78. 19 NovInternational Men’s Day: More heels!
79. 19 NovThe Domination of Fake News
80. 19 NovPolitical Cross-Currents in the House
81. 19 NovThe Anti-Majoritarian Difficulty
82. 19 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 352
83. 18 NovWhen Republicans Tell You They Are Nazis, Believe Them
84. 18 NovThe Ethnic Cleansing-Industrial Complex
85. 18 NovCleaning Up the Cuyahoga
86. 18 NovNFL Open Thread: McCarthyism Edition
87. 18 NovAn Addendum on Ted Kennedy
88. 18 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 351
89. 18 NovBlue County
90. 17 NovGeorgia Did Not Hold A Democratic Election For Governor In 2018
91. 17 Nov“You Don’t Critique My Journalism, I Critique Your Journalism!”
92. 17 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 350
93. 17 NovIn Which Brett Kavanaugh’s Replacement is Somehow More Evil Than Brett Kavanaugh
94. 16 NovToday in the Noble Ideas of Amateurism
95. 16 NovLooks Like I Need to Rethink My Environmental History Courses
96. 16 NovD. C. McMANister Is More Like It!
97. 16 Nov“A nameless, shapeless, faceless woman I know nothing about who will surely be perfect.”
98. 16 NovBut Does She Have Granite Countertops?
99. 16 NovJumping Out of the Clown Car Right Before It Goes Over the Cliff
100. 16 NovWhich Terrible President Gets the Rose?
101. 16 NovThe Principles of Susan Collins, Woman of Principle (TM)
102. 16 NovThe Case for Letting Malibu Burn
103. 16 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 349
104. 16 NovParadise Lost
105. 16 NovAre Democrats Developing a 2020 Frontrunner?
106. 16 NovAn 1861 Japanese “History” of the American Revolution
107. 15 NovTrump: Damn Right I Fired Sessions to Obstruct Justice
108. 15 NovOn the #FiveWhiteGuys Coup
109. 15 NovLego my Campaign Finance Violations!
110. 15 NovFighter vs. Bomber I
111. 15 NovThe Wages of David Cameron’s Staggering Incompetence
112. 15 NovDeep Thoughts, By Malcolm Gladwell
113. 14 NovIt Will Be Because You’re An Asshole
114. 14 NovActing Attorney General lent his name to company hawking time travel cryptocurrency and a toilet for the “well-endowed”
115. 14 NovTrump claims you need an ID to buy cereal and that people vote twice by putting on a different hat
116. 14 Nov“Wait…Are You Saying We Should Stop Investing With Elizabeth Holmes?”
117. 14 NovWinner Take All
118. 14 NovEverything Is Fine
119. 14 NovThe Turtle Who Had No Shame
120. 14 Nov#FloridaMonkeys
121. 14 NovLeadership for the 21st Century
122. 13 NovMelania Trump demands top national security official be fired
123. 13 NovCNN sues Trump administration over barring of Jim Acosta from White House
124. 13 NovAmerica’s Greatest Moral Sage Speaks
125. 13 NovWorst Fanfic Ever
126. 13 NovCamp Fire
127. 13 NovGrand Canyon State Flips to Democrats
128. 12 NovWhy is FiveThirtyEight’s college football playoff odds calculator so absurdly bad?
129. 12 NovWill Trump leave the White House voluntarily?
130. 12 NovYou Are The Sucker, Fox News Division
131. 12 NovDonald Trump’s Racism Has Material Consequences
132. 12 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 12, 1892
133. 11 NovThe Trump Doctrine
134. 11 NovArmistice Day
135. 11 NovThe Election of Donald Trump Was a Devastating Blow to Neoliberalism
136. 11 NovNFL Open Thread: Making History Edition
137. 11 Nov“In many fields of medicine nowadays, a dose of dynamite can do a world of good.”
138. 11 NovNovember 11, 1918
139. 11 NovLGM Review of Books: Dan Flores, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
140. 11 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 348
141. 11 NovPresidential Elections Are Important
142. 10 NovWaiting For Infrastructure Week
143. 10 NovA Noble Tribute to Human Courage
144. 10 NovDid Someone Say….EMAILS?
145. 10 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 10, 1933
146. 10 NovGoing Out With A Racism
147. 9 NovTrump conspired with David Pecker to quash stories about his affairs
148. 9 NovWhy can’t our media state that even Trump’s most obvious lies are lies?
149. 9 NovThis Sequel To Groundhog Day Is Terrible
150. 9 NovThe Wages of Coal
151. 9 NovThe Worst of All Election Takes
152. 9 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 347
153. 9 Nov2018 Was a Wave Election
154. 9 NovThe Republican Party: A Racist Organization
155. 8 NovThe Senate Disaster
156. 8 NovBernie Sanders absolves racists of their racism
157. 8 NovIncel rebellion
158. 8 NovYour Own, Personal, Roy Cohn
159. 8 NovWhite House uses doctored Infowars tape to justify banning reporter
160. 8 NovMass shootings in the US since 1950 resulting in eight or more murders
161. 8 NovSweet Victories
162. 8 NovThe best people, bringing so much winning
163. 7 NovPundit’s Fallacies Are Dumb
164. 7 NovQuick come see, there goes the Robert E. Lee
165. 7 NovThe president of the United States as a crazy mob boss
166. 7 NovHow Do You Solve A Problem Like the U.S. Constitution?
167. 7 NovThe stories referring to a dead brothel owner aren’t about the DOPUS’ grandfather
168. 7 NovDreadnought
169. 7 NovPeople Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 5 (Chapter 4)
170. 7 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 346
171. 7 NovNo Surrender
172. 7 NovElection Night Open Thread 3: What’s Not the Matter With Kansas
173. 7 NovNo matter what happens tonight, tomorrow I will…
174. 6 NovElection Night Open Thread
175. 6 NovHalperin Lives!
176. 6 NovFox news employees unaware they are working for a right wing propaganda outlet
177. 6 NovWhiling Away the Hours
178. 6 NovIf You Guys Could Nail Scott Walker That Would Be Beautiful
179. 6 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 345
180. 6 NovNothing’s riding on this except the, uh, First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country.
181. 6 NovVoting 2
182. 6 NovThe Parody Cannot Hear the Parodyer
183. 6 Nov“The Republican Party has abandoned a closing argument for a primal scream. But it does not have to work.”
184. 6 NovCrow/Crow 2018
185. 6 NovFor Our Media, Only White People Count
186. 5 NovEnvironmental Issues Are Social Justice Issues
187. 5 NovWhat If We Lose Tomorrow?
188. 5 NovWhy is the New York Times publishing fascist propaganda?
189. 5 NovFox And Friends, America’s Assignment Editor
190. 5 NovWho will vote against American fascism tomorrow?
191. 5 NovKrugman Subtweets, An Excellent Series
192. 4 NovMore Racist Vote Suppression in Texas
193. 4 NovCurrent Mood Open Thread
194. 4 NovBrian Kemp’s War on Democracy Accelerates
195. 4 NovNFL Open Thread: Dr. Z R.I.P. Edition
196. 4 NovThe Election of Donald Trump Was a Crushing Blow to Neoliberal Elites
197. 4 NovOne of Life’s Most Perplexing Mysteries
198. 3 NovRacist Jazz
199. 3 NovBoth Sides Do It Is A Hell of a Drug
200. 3 NovFederal Judge Makes Novel Decision to Enforce Federal Law
201. 3 NovDonald Trump Is A Huge Racist
202. 2 NovNotes from the Fall of the Republic
203. 2 NovWhen You Couldn’t Call A Lie A Lie
204. 2 NovIt’s just a shot away
205. 2 NovGreat Own-Goals In History
206. 2 NovTwo Visionaries
207. 1 NovToday’s Winner in “Worst Person in the Trump Administration”
208. 1 NovChat show presenter to be new US ambassador to the United Nations
209. 1 NovOn Freedom
210. 1 NovRepublican Policy Preferences
211. 1 NovSandra Day Rehnquist Just Feels Wrong
212. 1 NovLaw school shakeout update
213. 1 NovThe Spirits of the Dark…
214. 1 NovRacist Vote Suppression: Not Just For the Confederacy Anymore
215. 1 NovActual CNN headline: “Trump Campaign Releases Racist Ad”
216. 1 NovEpistemic Closure, Peonage Ball Edition
217. 1 NovIt’s Halloween. Time for a tour of Hell.

October 2018

1. 31 OctTrump understands that Republican policies aren’t actually popular, but white supremacy is
2. 31 OctThe New Jim Crow
3. 31 OctThe Party of Calhoun Does BothSides
4. 31 OctIt’s not tone deaf when they know exactly what tone they’re setting
5. 31 OctThe Haunting of Hill House
6. 31 OctSS vs. CV
7. 31 OctIf Voting Meant Anything They Wouldn’t Let You Vote, And Other Extremely Dumb Things People Believe
8. 31 OctWhat Else Is There to Say?
9. 31 OctHas Mueller subpoenaed Trump?
10. 31 OctRepublicans Getting Borked on Healthcare
11. 31 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 344
12. 31 OctMore Poisoned Water
13. 30 OctYour Moment of Zen
14. 30 OctIf not now when?
15. 30 OctAnother brick in the Wohl (2 updates)
16. 30 OctAxios of Evil
17. 30 OctBari Weiss and Katie Roiphe warned us this would happen
18. 30 OctGoing Nuclear on Higher Ed
19. 30 OctContempt
20. 30 OctTrump to end birthright citizenship by executive order
21. 30 OctErik Visits an American (Abroad) Grave, Part 343
22. 30 OctHate And Lies About Healthcare: The Entire 2018 Republican Message
23. 29 OctCrazy Ex-Girlfriend is Singing Paul’s Song
24. 29 OctAlways Be Grifting
25. 29 OctThe latest Clinton freakout
26. 29 OctKiel Mutiny
27. 29 OctThis is the Play
28. 29 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 29, 1889
29. 29 OctFascist Rise in Brazil
30. 28 OctNFL Open Thread: Air Raid Edition
31. 28 OctThe center cannot hold
32. 28 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 342
33. 28 Oct“Soros-Occupied State Department”
34. 27 OctMan of the People
35. 27 OctAnd If That Doesn’t Work, Try Having Some Kids Rush Him
36. 27 OctThe Descent of America
37. 27 OctHe Seems Very Economically Anxious
38. 27 Oct17 And Counting
39. 27 OctRepublicans Are Who They Say They Are
40. 26 OctIs this the presidential pivot pundits have been waiting for?
41. 26 OctNewt: Republican Judges Are Lawless Hacks
42. 26 OctSteven Pinker’s valiant battle against political correctness
43. 26 OctFlorida Man with MAGA van
44. 26 OctThe Ongoing Catastrophe in Yemen
45. 26 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 341
46. 25 OctThe creation of the moral panic over “political correctness”
47. 25 OctInevitable Failure Fails
48. 25 OctLOCK HER UP!
49. 25 OctMeanwhile
50. 25 OctThis Is How You Do It
51. 24 OctFalse flags
52. 24 OctFire and the Western Mentality
53. 24 Oct2019
54. 24 OctHow Can We Start Not Missing Jeff Flake If He Won’t Go Away
55. 24 OctFighting the New Gilded Age
56. 24 OctGetting the Gang Back Together
57. 24 OctCivility
58. 24 OctThe Mind, Such As It Is, of the Trumpian Anti-Intellectual
59. 23 OctThe Hack Gap
60. 23 Oct53 Percent
61. 23 OctChuck Schumer must go
62. 23 OctThe Mainstreaming of Fascism
63. 23 OctFirst Man, and the Fictions of Space Exploration
64. 23 OctAnd the caravan is on its way
65. 23 OctTake the skinheads bowling
66. 22 OctThe Post-Shelby County World
67. 22 OctFor the many, not the few
68. 22 OctHow will you CtM?
69. 22 OctThe Civil Rights Vicious Circle
70. 22 OctGoing Rogue on the INF
71. 22 OctDispatches From the New Jim Crow
72. 22 OctSleep now in the fire
73. 22 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 340
74. 22 OctThese Are The Worst People
75. 22 OctLGM Review of Books: Gabriel Thompson, America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
76. 21 OctGreat Moments in Both Sides Do It
77. 21 Oct“First We Take Vancouver, then We Take Eugene”
78. 21 OctNFL Open Thread: SUPERGENIUS and Tragedy Edition
79. 21 OctStuff n’ Things
80. 21 OctNational Security as Magical Thinking
81. 21 OctNice Guys and Damsels in Distress
82. 21 OctToday In Our Overcompensated, Underachieving, and Tyranny-Supporting Elites
83. 21 OctGame 7!
84. 20 OctMy Kind of Guy
85. 20 OctLGM Review of Books: Dorceta E. Taylor, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
86. 19 OctIt Was Self-Defense
87. 19 OctMusic Notes
88. 19 OctThose Rats Won’t Fuck Themselves
89. 19 OctThe gods that failed
90. 19 OctBecause It Was Wreckable
91. 19 OctUSA and KSA: “Already going to hell, just pumping that gas”
92. 19 OctThis Seemed Like a Great Idea, What Went Wrong?
93. 19 OctHow Will the Republican Conference Help Trump Try to Cover Up the Saudi Torture-Killing?
94. 18 OctDonald Trump Becoming the Republican Nominee Is A Mystery That Will Never Be Solved, Like the Square Root of 4
95. 18 OctTalking about pop music
96. 18 OctHow Your Robotically Party-Line Republican Judicial Sausage Gets Made
97. 18 OctToday In the New Jim Crow
98. 18 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 18, 1981
99. 18 OctTrump administration tries to cover up the Saudi government’s torture and murder of a dissident journalist
100. 18 OctThe Rise of Progressive Internationalism?
101. 17 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 339
102. 17 OctA Party of Trumps
103. 17 OctClimate of denial
104. 17 OctFacebook Lied, Careers Died
105. 17 OctRepublicans Continue to Lie About Their Healthcare Policies
106. 17 OctShowrunner Continues to Recycle Script Ideas
107. 17 OctThe Logical Conclusion of Naderism
108. 16 OctDonald Trump Reiterates Strong Belief in the Due Process of Law
109. 16 OctWarren and native identity
110. 16 OctRacist white woman fired for being a racist #politicalcorrectnessgoneamok
111. 16 OctDoes Trump Have A Point About Immigration? (SPOILER: No.)
112. 16 OctResist Cooler, Ladies
113. 16 OctWhat passes for a right wing intellectual
114. 16 OctI wrap my conscience up, I want to win that cup and get my money baby
115. 16 OctPeople Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 4 (Chapter 3)
116. 16 OctErik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 338
117. 16 OctNow This is Great Art
118. 15 OctWe didn’t mean to murder him (pinky promise), we only meant to torture him as part of his kidnapping
119. 15 OctTrump Urges Search For the Real Killers
120. 15 OctOne reason we can’t have nice things
121. 15 OctThere’s no action
122. 15 OctLGM Podcast: The Kavanaugh Caper
123. 15 OctLike the Astrodome, and the first teepee
124. 15 OctPlaying the Long Game
125. 15 OctVoter Suppression: Native American Version
126. 15 OctLGM Beer Talk: Failed Beer Styles
127. 14 OctToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
128. 14 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 337
129. 14 OctNFL Open Thread: Denial is Next to a Swamp in New Jersey
130. 14 OctWill Kavanaugh Make Democrats Care About the Court?
131. 14 OctGo Ducks!
132. 13 OctIf Bret Stephens Columns Were A Food, They Would Be Spoiled Milk Poured Over Wonder Bread
133. 13 OctLucky Ducky!
134. 13 OctAnnouncement: People Must Live By Work Book Party!
135. 13 OctOnly simple men can see the logic in whatever smarter men can whittle down till you can fit it on a sticker
136. 12 OctThe attempted destruction of American democracy, an unending series
137. 12 OctThe New Jim Crow
138. 12 OctCaatsa
139. 12 OctThe Big-Spending Communists of Arizona Open Thread
140. 12 OctIf you want a vision of Republican civility, imagine a golf shoe …
141. 12 OctThe Counter-Minoritarian Difficulty
142. 12 OctWe Are Governed by the Worst People
143. 12 OctYou Just Got Trumptrolled
144. 12 OctClinton’s Voters Were More Economically Anxious
145. 11 Oct#NeverTrump becomes #Trump, an endless series
146. 11 OctAnother day in paradise
147. 11 OctOnly the Finest Foreign Policy
148. 11 OctWhy Kavanaugh is on the Court
149. 11 OctGreat Moments In Murc’s Law
150. 11 Oct“…the thrum of vindictive satisfaction”
151. 11 OctThe Aristocrats
152. 11 OctTrumpism and the Sovereignty Paradox
153. 10 OctFrom the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Calhoun, An Endless Series
154. 10 OctJoe Biden: Campaign Supergenius
155. 10 OctThis Will Hurt You More Than It Hurts Me
156. 10 OctThe Mommy Party
157. 10 OctAre We Absolutely Certain That Doing Unpopular Things Will Make Republicans More Popular?
158. 10 OctUseful Celebrity Contributions
159. 10 OctJohn Roberts is at Least as Big a Threat to Democracy as Donald Trump
160. 9 OctDiscussion thread
161. 9 OctLive from New York: Me!
162. 9 OctYou Win When You Have the Votes
163. 9 OctLGM Podcast: Bolsonaro
164. 9 OctThe most important election in modern American history
165. 9 OctIt must be very strange to be slumlord and professional son-in-law Jared Kushner
166. 9 OctEt tu, Dreyfus?
167. 9 OctVaryag Undone
168. 9 Oct“Why Did Republicans Nominate This Man, Did They Run Out of Human Beings?”
169. 9 OctThe Marks Demand To Be Marked
170. 9 OctThe Bredesen Situation
171. 9 OctDon’t Worry, The Deep State Will Stop This
172. 9 OctRepublican Governing Principles
173. 9 OctToday in Complete Losers
174. 8 OctHe Says What They’re Thinking
175. 8 OctCollaborators
176. 8 OctOccupied Territory
177. 8 Oct“If My Assumption That Clinton Winning Is Inevitable Is Wrong, I Owe You A Coke.”
178. 8 OctRainy days and Mondays
179. 8 OctThe Future of the Indian DIB
180. 8 OctAnd Then There Weren’t Nine
181. 8 OctThe counterminoritarian dilemma
182. 8 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 336
183. 8 Oct“Another word for what we now call “tribalism” is disagreement.”
184. 8 OctPrison Labor: A History
185. 7 OctTrump’s Woman In Maine Continues to Embarrass Herself
186. 7 OctNFL Open Thread: Goodbye Earl Edition
187. 7 OctThe myth of the neutral non-partisan impartial justice
188. 7 OctIt’s Not That They Don’t Know, It’s That They Don’t Care
189. 6 OctThe Kavanaugh Kover Up
190. 6 OctInside the Law School Etc.
191. 6 OctMurc’s Law Is A Harsh Mistress
192. 6 OctThe Party of Trump, All the Way Down
193. 5 OctThe end of something
194. 5 OctJason Van Dyke Found Guilty
195. 5 OctSusan Collins: I Want An Angry Partisan Credibly Accused of Attempted Rape to Overrule Roe v. Wade
196. 5 OctBig little lies
197. 5 OctThe Continuing Rise of American-style Fascism
198. 5 OctThe counter-majoritarian difficulty
199. 5 OctModified Limited Hangout
200. 5 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 335
201. 4 OctThe Road to Justice Bart O’Kavanaugh
202. 4 OctThe Democrats would absolutely not confirm a progressive version of Brett Kavanaugh
203. 4 OctHe Was Practiced At the Art of Deception
204. 4 OctPoe’s Law Watch: Brett Kavanaugh Edition
205. 4 OctEscalation
206. 4 OctThe Happiness Thread
207. 4 OctInvestigation that didn’t investigate anything doesn’t find what it wasn’t looking for
208. 4 OctMcConnell Will Now Use Sham Investigation As a Pretext to Ram Kavanaugh Through
209. 4 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 4, 1918
210. 3 Oct“Once malice is embraced as a virtue, it is impossible to contain.”
211. 3 OctIf Kavanaugh is confirmed, every single GOP justice on the SCOTUS will have been appointed illegitimately
212. 3 OctTired of All The Winning
213. 3 OctThe Party of the Plutocracy
214. 3 OctMen Who Hate Women
215. 3 OctI Don’t Care about Your Friendship with Mother’s Good Boy, Brett
216. 3 OctLinks 5
217. 3 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 334
218. 3 OctPull My Middle Finger
219. 3 OctThe President of the United States Is a Reprehensible Piece of Shit
220. 2 OctThe Coolest, Hippest Person at LGM
221. 2 OctFBI investigation expected to be complete tomorrow, with vote on Kavanaugh scheduled for later in the week
222. 2 OctDonald Trump’s Free-Floating Hatreds Have Material Consequences
223. 2 OctDonald Trump earned his money the old-fashioned way
224. 2 OctThe A-2s always were a bit twitchy
225. 2 OctJoe Biden Should Not And Will Not Be the Democratic Nominee in 2020
226. 2 OctRelease Day!
227. 2 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 333
228. 2 OctHe’s Not A Man, He’s A Remorseless Perjury Machine
229. 1 OctHow are Kavanaugh’s defenders in the conservative media dealing with his constant brazen lying?
230. 1 OctNow you must provide some answers
231. 1 OctBrett Kavanaugh and Negative Polarization
232. 1 OctTake me out to the ball game
233. 1 OctPopular Culture on Brett and Tobin
234. 1 OctFucking Consent, How Does It Work
235. 1 OctThe Trump Administration Is Still A Nightmare
236. 1 OctHack Hired To Represent Republican Senators Issues Farcically Partisan Document
237. 1 OctA Thoroughly Decent And Honorable Person

September 2018

1. 30 SepThe Lies Of Lyin’ Brett, Extra Lying Edition
2. 30 SepNFL Open Thread: Trouble At Team Trump?
3. 30 SepKavanaugh and 80s Pop Culture
4. 30 SepWhat’s New In Baltimore?
5. 30 SepIt’s 11 AM Somewhere
6. 29 SepThe Investigation is a Sham
7. 29 SepThe Fundamental Incoherence of the Anti-Anti-Kavanaugh Position
8. 29 SepIt’s My Birthday and I Do What I Want
9. 29 SepDiversity!
10. 29 SepPeople Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 3 (Chapter 2)
11. 29 SepSome Weekend Reading
12. 29 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 332
13. 29 SepWhat the Investigation Means
14. 29 SepTrump Administration Acknowledges Anthropogenic Climate Change
15. 29 SepFilms No One Needs
16. 29 SepKavanaugh’s Conduct At the Hearings Is More Than Sufficient Reason to Reject Him
17. 28 SepCheney’s Toy Returns to Action
18. 28 SepLucy re-sets football once again
19. 28 SepA Political History of the Future: Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
20. 28 SepThere Was One Credible Witness on Thursday
21. 28 SepWaiting for Gravity…
22. 28 SepChecking In On Old Friends
23. 28 SepInside the law school scam, Brett Kavanaugh edition
24. 28 SepGlobal Economies, Global Worker Solutions
25. 28 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 331
26. 28 SepToday, In Being Part of the Problem
27. 28 Sep“If I were allowed to curse in The New York Times, this column would be one word repeated over and over.”
28. 28 SepKavanaugh’s most absurd lie
29. 28 SepBrett Kavanaugh Inadvertently Rebutted His Own Defense
30. 27 SepDestroy the Republican Party
31. 27 SepThis Hearing In One Sentence
32. 27 SepBlasey Ford Hearing Open Thread II
33. 27 SepThis is What the Republican Party Is
34. 27 SepFoxbat Foxbat Foxbat!!!
35. 27 SepBlasey Ford Hearing Open Thread
36. 27 SepMeeting the enemy
37. 27 SepThe Double Whelan
38. 27 SepBut he’s always so sweet to me when he’s sober
39. 27 SepSay What You Want About the Tenets of “Bros Before Hos,” At Least It’s An Ethos
40. 26 SepChristine Blasey Ford’s prepared statement for the Senate Judiciary Committee
41. 26 SepHigh on their own supply
42. 26 SepTwist Ending
43. 26 SepThe Bart O’Kavanaugh Diaries
44. 26 SepThe McCain Legacy Lives On
45. 26 SepWhen is enough enough?
46. 26 SepI Like Big Boats, and I Cannot Lie
47. 26 SepLyin’ Brett
48. 25 SepJudiciary Committee Unwilling to Ask Questions At Their Own Potemkin Hearing
49. 25 SepDelusions of squalor
50. 25 SepJustice denied
51. 25 SepGross Story, Bro
52. 25 SepThe Opposite of Neoconservativism is not Isolationism
53. 25 SepThe Virginity Claim
54. 25 SepThe Kids Are Alright
55. 25 SepTrump Demands His Kavanaugh
56. 24 SepEditor Shamefully Denied Dude Process
57. 24 SepToday in the Carceral State
58. 24 Sep#notmetoo
59. 24 SepOur Educated Populace
60. 24 SepCat Calling: A History
61. 24 SepAnita Hill And Christine Blasey Ford
62. 24 SepLife during wartime
63. 24 SepMisty water-colored memories
64. 24 SepThe Kavanaugh Moment And Silent Testimonies
65. 24 SepA Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever
66. 24 SepWhite punks on dope
67. 24 SepKavanaugh Kooked?
68. 23 SepAmerica’s Most Useless Pundit Makes America’s Most Useless Argument
69. 23 SepNFL Week 3 Open Thread: The Baker and the Grinder
70. 23 SepDo I Have to Come Right Flat Out And Tell You Everything
71. 23 Sep“They’re Remorseful” vs. “He Was No Angel”
72. 23 SepDonald Trump’s Racism Has Material Consequences
73. 23 SepThe misogyny is coming from inside the House. And the Senate.
74. 23 SepIt’s Like Wanting A Free Ride Because A Democrat Already Paid
75. 23 SepThe one face of Sen. Ted Cruz
76. 22 SepMusic Notes
77. 22 SepChristine Blasey Ford Will Testify Before the Senate
78. 22 SepThis Year’s Akin
79. 22 SepAnd now don’t tell me that all of this was the work of one Edward Whelan
80. 22 SepBuild That Wall!
81. 21 SepMoney! Money! Money!
82. 21 Sep“We’ve surely made our mark in history.”
83. 21 SepBothsiderism, the never-ending story
84. 21 SepDude Process
85. 21 SepWhen the Levee Breaks
86. 21 SepCancel my subscription to American Reality: The Series
87. 21 SepDeadspin on Kavanaugh
88. 21 SepLawyering out
89. 21 SepToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
90. 21 SepThey think that I’ve got no respect, but everything means less than zero
91. 21 SepDo Even Gun Nuts Have Their Limits?
92. 21 SepMorning notes on the Kavanaugh fiasco
93. 21 SepGround Game Beats All
94. 21 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 330
95. 21 SepThe Plot Against America
96. 21 SepReviews and Events
97. 21 SepCase Closed
98. 20 SepJust for one day
99. 20 SepBeing Fired Because You’re Bad At Your Job Is Not a Violation of Due Process
100. 20 SepWhen you think you’re sowing the seeds of doubt, but you’re really flinging rat turds everywhere
101. 20 SepBecause you don’t really give a damn about this year’s girl
102. 20 SepKavanaugh’s Mentor
103. 20 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 329
104. 20 SepHanging On With Loud Desperation is the Ted Cruz Way
105. 19 SepDiversity on the Border
106. 19 SepOn a book entitled “Lolita”
107. 19 SepThe Myth of the Indispensable Man
108. 19 SepFree boat! {Update II}
109. 19 SepRemembering Our Sites of Genocide
110. 19 SepMaga
111. 19 SepToday in the Sixth Extinction
112. 19 SepAnother Anti-#MeToo Editor Embarrasses Himself
113. 19 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 19, 1981
114. 19 SepWhy Was She Reticent About Coming Forward?
115. 18 SepKavanaugh and the question of torture
116. 18 SepSuppose they gave a trade war and nobody cared?
117. 18 SepLabor and Environment
118. 18 SepRichard Epstein thinks attempted rape accuser is doing it all wrong
119. 18 SepKavanaugh, Trump and Conservative Ressentiment
120. 18 SepReform?
121. 18 SepLiberal law professor argues we shouldn’t hold a little attempted rape against Brett Kavanaugh all these years later
122. 18 SepEvil After All
123. 18 SepSuperstition, fear and jealousy
124. 18 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 328
125. 18 SepWSJ Offers Inevitably Scorching Kavanaugh Take
126. 17 SepTrump Flunky Gives Ridiculous Defense of Trumpian Trump Nominee
127. 17 SepCollins calls for public hearing at which Ford and Kavanaugh both testify under oath
128. 17 SepBrett Kavanaugh is bad at lying
129. 17 SepFucking Consent, How Does It Work?
130. 17 SepEverything Old is Eww Again
131. 17 SepNo more Mr. Nice Guy
132. 17 SepThe QEs!
133. 17 SepPeople Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 2 (Chapter 1)
134. 17 SepFull Misogyny Ahead
135. 17 SepWhen Predictable Disasters Happen
136. 16 SepBook Review: Ann Sittig and Martha Florinda Gonzalez, The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains
137. 16 SepSunday Book Review: The Silk Roads
138. 16 Sep“Why suffer through the annihilation if it’s not going to matter?”
139. 16 SepNFL Open Thread: The Nathan Peterman Experience, R.I.P.(?)
140. 16 SepQuick TV Rec: American Vandal
141. 16 SepWho are you, really?
142. 16 SepThe Shilling of the Shapiro
143. 15 SepThe Solution to the Democratic Defects of American Constitutionalism is not Less Democracy
144. 15 SepMeeting the Challenge of the Transnational Right
145. 15 SepLet’s have a cover story for the douchebags, let’s have a cover story for the assholes
146. 14 SepShorter Susan Collins: Democracy is Extortion
147. 14 SepNixon and the Machine
148. 14 SepNothing to See Here!
149. 14 SepAlways Rat on Your “Friends” And Never Keep Your Mouth Shut
150. 14 SepNatural Disasters Are Human Disasters
151. 14 SepReplicating class privilege via elite hiring norms
152. 14 SepIf you lose, you still win.
153. 13 SepKavanaugh accused of sexual misconduct by woman affiliated with Stanford University
154. 13 SepLiberty, fraternity, plutocracy
155. 13 SepThe Rice Rule
156. 13 SepThe Trump administration is now literally on its face a criminal conspiracy
157. 13 SepThis is America
158. 13 SepThe Senate in 2018
159. 13 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 327
160. 13 SepBagelghazi
161. 12 SepNo, Really, Heckuva Job
162. 12 SepThe Kavanaugh’s Tale
163. 12 SepThe Stop BEZOS Act – When you care enough to give the very least
164. 12 SepThe Working Poor and the Working Homeless
165. 12 SepMolon Blow
166. 12 SepPeople Must Live By Work Book Club: Week 1 (Introduction)
167. 12 SepHeckuva Job
168. 12 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 326
169. 11 SepPaul Ryan barely misses lifetime goal of kicking federal deficit up to one trillion dollars per year
170. 11 SepNRA With Attitude
171. 11 SepYou *Are* the Sucker, Democratic Proceduralist Edition
172. 11 SepLet us use this solemn occasion to remember that Donald Trump is the scum of the earth
173. 11 SepToday in Our Glorious TechBro Betters
174. 11 SepBlacKkKlansman
175. 11 SepThe Resistance Will Not Come From Within White House
176. 11 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 325
177. 10 SepTelling the Truth About Republican Health Care Policies Works
178. 10 SepDeSantis decamps to defend campaign
179. 10 SepTrump: Symptom or Cause? (Or, tomorrow’s historical revisionism today)
180. 10 SepDeWhite DeNationalist
181. 10 SepNew Mexico’s Historical Controversies are America’s Historical Controversies
182. 9 SepWill Janus Only Apply to Unions?
183. 9 SepThe Wishful Thinking Historical Comparisons of the Media
184. 9 SepBrutal
185. 9 SepNFL Open Thread: 2018 Picks
186. 9 SepA Playbook With One Play
187. 9 SepA Political History of the Future: Humans
188. 9 SepThe Principled Non-Interventionist Mindset
189. 8 SepThe BEZOS Act Is Bad Policy
190. 8 SepBooker and Borking
191. 8 SepWhite kids and white privilege
192. 8 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 8, 1909
193. 8 SepYes, It’s a White Power Sign
194. 8 SepTucker and Mickey
195. 7 Sep19th Century Schizoid Men
196. 7 SepBrett Lied, Women Will Die
197. 7 SepToday Among Our Massively Sexist Media Moguls
198. 7 SepThe Double Crisis of the American Political System
199. 7 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 324
200. 6 SepHackenberg’d
201. 6 SepBurt Reynolds
202. 6 SepThe Best Reason to Replace Pelosi
203. 6 SepA Little Light Perjury
204. 6 SepThe Death of Parody in the Age of Trump, Cont’d
205. 6 SepRecipe Review: Nepali-Style Chicken Curry
206. 6 SepThe Constitution is failing
207. 6 SepGaslighting For White Nationalism: the Tucker Carlson Story
208. 6 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 6, 1919
209. 6 SepThe Republican Vote Suppression Machine Marches On
210. 6 SepBe John Dean or STFU
211. 5 SepJames Mattis Was a Front Man For a Massive Fraud
212. 5 SepThe calls are coming from inside the White House
213. 5 SepWHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!
214. 5 Sep#LOL Actually Stuff Does Matter
215. 5 SepThe GOP recycles everything
216. 5 SepThe Kavanaugh farce
217. 5 SepProgressive Foreign Policy, Again
218. 5 SepBret Stephens, FREE SPEECH WARRIOR
219. 5 SepUS-India Alignment?
220. 5 SepThe Insurgency
221. 5 SepPressley v. Capuano
222. 5 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 323
223. 5 SepTakes That Are Correct
224. 4 SepWhite Supremacy Is Not An “Idea” That Needs to be Given Prestigious Forums
225. 4 SepThe Consistent Non-Interventionist Mindset of Donald Trump
226. 4 SepDonald Trump, Champion of the Forgotten Man
227. 4 SepAnnouncement: Book Club!
228. 4 SepMapping the American Progressive Movement
229. 4 SepThe Big Five
230. 4 SepKavanaugh Hearings Open Thread
231. 4 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 322
232. 4 SepReactionary centrism in one sentence
233. 3 SepYou Cannot “Win” Debates on High-Profile Platforms With Bigots And Liars
234. 3 SepThe Worst Place on Earth, Revisited
235. 3 SepCongress: Pay Your Interns!
236. 3 SepMedia Media Media!
237. 3 SepTrump excoriates his own AG for not quashing indictments of GOP politicians
238. 3 SepThe Election of Donald Trump Was a Crushing Blow to the Neoliberal Order
239. 3 SepWar on transit: Phoenix edition
240. 3 SepElizabeth Warren Was Treated As A White Woman By Every Law School That Hired Her
241. 2 SepThe Worst of Washington, All in One Place
242. 2 SepWill Democrats Ever Understand How Politics Work?
243. 2 SepAlways be Grifting
244. 2 SepSunday Book Review: The Imagineers of War
245. 2 SepCandygate
246. 2 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 321
247. 1 SepImagine a World Where the Nation’s Most Prominent Leftist Publication Finally Turned Away from Counterproductive “Class Not Race” Analysis. Ah, What a World That Would Be
248. 1 SepSmashy Smashy
249. 1 SepLabor Day Q&A
250. 1 SepTrolling from the grave
251. 1 SepAin’t you hungry for success, success, success, success does it matter? (Blattered)
252. 1 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 320
253. 1 SepHistory Professors Doing It Right

August 2018

1. 31 AugI Still Can’t Believe It
2. 31 AugDouble Standards and Magic Asterisks
3. 31 AugOn Avital Ronell’s Celebrity Defenders
4. 31 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 319
5. 30 AugIf you call beating your wife “domestic violence,” then what do you call actually killing her?
6. 30 AugImagine if it were legal for elite media reporting to use accurate language to describe the racism of the contemporary Republican party
7. 30 AugTeachers Strike, Round Two
8. 30 AugWhy Do All These White Supremacists Keep Showing Up in Facebook Groups I Moderate?
9. 30 AugPrison Strike, Prison Slavery
10. 30 AugJet Engines?
11. 30 AugGetting Those Tax Returns
12. 30 AugToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
13. 30 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 318
14. 30 AugChuck Is Not a Wartime Consigliere
15. 30 AugOrganize!
16. 29 AugIn Trump’s America, Republicans Say the Quiet Parts Loud
17. 29 AugA winning stratergery from the Texas GOP
18. 29 Aug“Folks, I know I’m going to catch some flak for saying this. But, it’s time for me to bravely roll out the red carpet for our cast aside colleague, Steve.” [Update – “Rape whistles”]
19. 29 AugSupercarrier Denied?
20. 29 Aug“Why are we honoring this woman, have we run out of people who aren’t war criminals?”
21. 29 AugDonald Trump’s Racism Has Material Consequences
22. 29 AugCrawling Back From Under Their Rocks
23. 29 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 317
24. 29 AugThe Ballad Of Kindly Bill Buckley
25. 29 AugThe first thing I met was a guy with no buzz [Update]
26. 28 AugAny Iraqi Who Still Has Two Hands Is No Doubt Clapping For These McCain Takes
27. 28 AugThere must be some kind of way out of here
28. 28 AugThat’s a hell of an act, what do you call it?
29. 28 AugOn the DNC Reforms
30. 28 AugLinkage and the SCS
31. 28 AugThe Collapse of the Republican Center-Right
32. 28 AugWhen the SWP Grows Up It’s Going to Trump University
33. 27 AugROK Defense Industry
34. 27 AugThe Inevitable Pivot
35. 27 AugMurc’s Law, Brett Kavanaugh Edition
36. 27 AugMcCain, Healthcare, and Partisanship
37. 27 AugRepublicans Terrified of Losing the Ability to Cover for the Trump Administration
38. 26 AugThis American Life
39. 26 AugYes, McCain was a hero. He was also a conservative Republican, and a politician.
40. 26 AugJohn McCain and the POW/MIA myth
41. 26 AugMccain
42. 25 AugI once had lots of pride, the world was in my hands
43. 25 AugThe Wages of Neo-Calhounism
44. 25 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 316
45. 24 AugPeonage Ball and America
46. 24 AugThe Great Virginia 2nd Congressional District Rattus Rattus Intercourse Caper
47. 24 AugYou May Now Flip
48. 24 AugQuick Book Rec: The Overstory by Richard Powers
49. 24 Aug“Best Message” VMA Winner Has Already Inspired Global Consciousness
50. 24 AugAfter indictment, Duncan Hunter turns to the Bible for help
51. 24 AugTrump: “Please Ratfuck Our Elections Again. It’s Our Only Hope.”
52. 24 AugThe Trump-Nixon comparison
53. 24 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 315
54. 24 Aug“Being a rat where I’m coming from is like asking a person where you’re coming from to become a fucking Nazi”
55. 23 AugTomorrow’s Lie of the Year Today
56. 23 AugToday In the Intelligence-Insulting Industrial Complex
57. 23 AugThe Jim Crow Roots of Trump’s Republican Party
58. 23 AugAnother day, another policy directive via Fox News
59. 23 AugThe Urban Meyer debacle
60. 23 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 314
61. 23 AugI want to live alone in the desert I want to be like Georgia O’Keefe I want to live in a tacky Midtown tower and never go down in the street
62. 23 AugHelp the boys making all the noise
63. 23 AugWorst Imaginable Ways to Spend Your Weekend
64. 22 AugThese Are Not Very Bright Etc.
65. 22 AugSome random thoughts about reporting, prompted by a less-than-dull news cycle
66. 22 AugBig time college sports in a buckeye-shaped nutshell
67. 22 AugThe “Let’s Pretend Brett Kavanaugh Won’t Overrule Roe” Kabuki
68. 22 Aug“America Is a Nation of High-Functioning Gun-aholics”
69. 22 AugA revoltin’ but not a surprisin’ development
70. 22 AugThe President is a Crook
71. 22 AugHeritage, Not Hate
72. 22 AugWhat’s Everyone’s Favorite Interior Secretary Up To?
73. 22 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 313
74. 22 AugRacism, Not Just Corruption!
75. 22 AugA Good Day for the Republican Party
76. 22 AugWorkers and Environmentalists
77. 21 AugThese Are Unbelievably Horrible People
78. 21 AugMen of honor
79. 21 AugManafort guilty on eight counts
80. 21 AugKilling 1,400 People a Year to Own the Libs
81. 21 AugCohen goes down with the ship
82. 21 AugNew Read: Animating Torture
83. 21 AugThe Partisan
84. 21 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 312
85. 21 AugDown Goes Silent Sam!
86. 21 AugAlways Be Grifting
87. 21 AugFrom the Archives
88. 20 Aug“Telling your graduate student to climb into bed with you to own the neolibs”
89. 20 AugTime for another round of “Gosh, is this racist?”
90. 20 AugThe rigged witch hunt
91. 20 AugWindmills, Our Deadliest Killers
92. 20 AugMonday Links…
93. 20 AugSing Michael sing
94. 20 AugThe New York Times Visits the Provinces, An Ongoing Series
95. 19 AugSouthern-Fried Kobach
96. 19 AugHow to Save Our Salmon and Our Orcas
97. 19 AugCarter 2
98. 19 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 311
99. 18 AugThe Future of Higher Education Is Not Education
100. 18 AugMusic Notes
101. 18 AugThese Are Not Very Bright Guys, And Things Got Out of Hand
102. 18 AugAnd if that doesn’t work, there are always show trials.
103. 18 AugAretha Franklin For Every Generation
104. 18 AugThe Art of the Troll
105. 18 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 310
106. 18 AugFriday Music Thread: Aretha, And How the Paranoid Style Deals With the Paranoid Style In American Politics
107. 17 AugThe Denmark Diversion
108. 17 AugShould Art Make Us Cry?
109. 17 AugThe Times Are Dark, but the Work Goes On, and the Cause Endures
110. 17 AugA poet-warrior in the classic sense
111. 17 AugNighthawk?
112. 17 AugUrging Stormy Daniels to abandon fields and castles
113. 17 AugIt’s Like 10,000 Spoons When All You Need Is Someone Who Doesn’t Support Treason in Defense of Slavery
114. 17 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 309
115. 16 AugA reminder: To John Roberts et. al., “voter fraud” means black people voting
116. 16 Aug“If You Couldn’t Solve Every Problem, You Shouldn’t Have Tried to Solve Any Problem,” An Idiotic Way of Evaluating Legislation
117. 16 AugConservative Intellectuals In Action
118. 16 AugThe Obama-Xi Cyber Agreement
119. 16 AugAretha Franklin, RIP
120. 16 AugCassandra Was Right Too
121. 16 AugLaw school stuff
122. 16 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 308
123. 16 AugHe’s Back
124. 16 AugNo Steffy Pwease
125. 16 AugDumping Nancy Pelosi For Electoral Reasons Would Be Really Stupid
126. 15 AugLOL Things Can Matter at the Margin
127. 15 AugToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
128. 15 AugA Stanford man
129. 15 AugSaving Capitalism From Itself
130. 15 AugRaptor Free?
131. 15 AugPutin’s Man In D.C.
132. 15 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 307
133. 15 AugIt’s Always Worse Than You Think
134. 14 AugRight wing scum: Dinesh D’Souza edition
135. 14 AugThe Demonization of Nancy Pelosi
136. 14 AugLGM Podcast: Firearm Supply Shocks and Canyons of Violence
137. 14 AugAgricultural Revolutions
138. 14 AugMissouri Post-Mortem
139. 14 AugSlavery, Post-1865
140. 14 AugThe Perils of the Academic Star System
141. 14 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 14, 1889
142. 14 AugAn Innocent Man
143. 13 Aug“Men like Brooks know, literally, nothing.”
144. 13 AugHillary Clinton Was, If Anything, Too Prepared
145. 13 AugYou Want It Whiter
146. 13 AugSpace Force Mother Mother
147. 13 AugThe selling of Elliott Broidy
148. 13 AugToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
149. 13 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 306
150. 13 AugWinning (More of) the White Working Class
151. 13 AugIf the GOP won’t do it then the anti-choicers will
152. 12 AugOh baby, it’s cryin’ time
153. 12 AugMaybe Millennials Are No Good After All
154. 12 AugFascists Love Misogyny
155. 12 AugThe Supreme Court of the New Gilded Age
156. 12 AugQuiet Pine Trees
157. 12 AugThe Election of Donald Trump Was a Crushing Blow to the Neoliberal Order
158. 12 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 305
159. 12 AugWhy Are Center-Right Identitarians Afraid of Imaginary Liberals?
160. 11 AugV.S. Naipaul, RIP
161. 11 AugHow the journalistic sausage gets made, LA Times edition
162. 11 AugHow the White Nationalists Are Taking Over the GOP
163. 11 AugDinner Illustrated: Recipe Book Review
164. 11 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 304
165. 11 AugToday In Entirely Unsurprising News
166. 10 AugFriday Night Creature Feature: Shoebill Stork
167. 10 AugJacobin Always Said That Republicans Are the Best Friend Medicaid Ever Had/And They Have to Admit That Compared to Nancy Pelosi Paul Ryan Don’t Seem That Bad
168. 10 AugIs a racially egalitarian American conservative party possible?
169. 10 AugWillfully Mistaking Derision For Fear
170. 10 AugToday In Jeff Sessions’s Neoconfederacy
171. 10 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 303
172. 10 AugEvery Accusation Is A Confession, Vote Fraud Fraud Edition
173. 9 AugWhy Fox’s Nightly White Power Hours Matter
174. 9 AugThe varieties of racist experience
175. 9 AugJudge Ellis’s Behavior Has Been Bad, But Doesn’t Tell Us Anything About the Outcome
176. 9 AugDems In Disarray
177. 9 AugUSAWC Position
178. 9 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 302/Dead Horses in American History, Part 19
179. 9 Aug20 Words
180. 9 AugBook Review: Caroline E. Light, Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense
181. 9 AugWels Should Have Spent More Time In Dusseldorf
182. 8 AugJacobin: Actually, Republicans Love Medicaid
183. 8 AugTlaib
184. 8 AugGrifters Love Grifters
185. 8 AugThe lost decade
186. 8 AugMore Swamp Draining
187. 8 AugAmerica Is Officially Great Again
188. 8 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 301
189. 8 AugThey Showed Me
190. 7 AugThe Past Won’t Save You and Neither Will Political Institutions
191. 7 AugDrain That Swamp!
192. 7 AugHow a Movement Grows
193. 7 AugWhen we said “illegal immigrants” we meant “legal immigrants,” if they weren’t American-looking
194. 7 AugFirst They Came For Alex Jones, And A Lot Of Bros Made Incredibly Dumb Arguments
195. 7 AugLGM Podcast: Hegemony and Its Discontents
196. 7 AugArticulating a Left Trade Agenda
197. 7 AugThey’re Going to Keep Coming For Medicaid
198. 7 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 300
199. 7 AugCivility As A Shield
200. 6 Aug“Wait a minute. You mean to tell me that the money we’re robbing is bein’ robbed?”
201. 6 AugCampus PC Is Out of Control
202. 6 AugThe Long Arm of Dunningism
203. 6 AugMissouri’s Right to Work Repeal Vote
204. 6 AugA public service annoucement
205. 6 AugCorrupt, Selfish Senator Puts Seat Needlessly At Risk
206. 6 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 299
207. 6 AugThey Attempted to Collude and They Lied About It
208. 5 AugDonald Trump’s Republican Party
209. 5 AugPoints That Need Making
210. 5 AugProfiting on Ethnic Cleansing
211. 5 AugA Slow Motion Lorry Wreck
212. 5 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 5, 1993
213. 5 AugXMas in August
214. 4 AugThe Castro-Loving Kids These Days Need to Understand that the Swedish Government Doesn’t Own the Means of Production
215. 4 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 298
216. 4 AugWitch Hunt Continues to Find a Striking Number of Witches
217. 4 AugAll aboard the Tikkki Torch Express!
218. 4 AugOn American Hegemony, Part III: Time for Some (Non-Game) Theory
219. 4 AugDomo Arigoto, Mister Gordon
220. 3 AugLGM Beer Talk: Bro Beer Culture
221. 3 AugDon’t give me that do goody good bullshit
222. 3 AugSullying American Political Discourse
223. 3 AugDonald Trump Becoming the Republican Nominee Is A Puzzle That Will Never Be Solved
224. 2 AugWorthwhile Garden State Initiative
225. 2 Aug“I’m A Soulless Careerist, Here’s Why Liberals Should Support Judge Kavanaugh”
226. 2 AugThe Art of Protesting Too Much
227. 2 AugBrett Kavanaugh Is What Conservatives Have Always Said He Was
228. 2 AugTitle IX and mandatory reporting
229. 2 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 297
230. 2 AugWhite Supremacy is the Ultimate Republican Grift
231. 1 AugThe Assassination of Al Franken by The Coward Kirsten Gillibrand, And Absolutely Nobody Else, Cont’d
232. 1 AugLGM Podcast: Russia and the Grand Old Party
233. 1 AugThis Sounds Like A Man With Nothing to Hide
234. 1 AugThe IJN in the Med…
235. 1 AugAn Announcement…
236. 1 AugWhy Winning the Little Battles Matter
237. 1 AugDemocracy May Be Coming to Michigan
238. 1 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 296
239. 1 AugCampus PC Is Out Of Control
240. 1 AugI See No Flaws in This Line of Reasoning
241. 1 AugOn the Amplification of Russian Hacking Trooferism

July 2018

1. 31 JulRacist backlash politics and the “press 1 for English” myth
2. 31 Jul“The Family Had A Lot of Buffers.”
3. 31 JulBut if you take the data, light it on fire, run it through the dishwasher, and play Scrabble with it, it proves my argument!
4. 31 JulTrade War! Real War! Trade War! Real War!
5. 31 JulSuit Alleges That Muslim Ban’s Waiver Process Is A Sham
6. 31 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 295
7. 31 JulThere is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea
8. 31 JulTlam
9. 31 JulThe Election of Donald Trump Was a Crushing Blow to the Neoliberal Order
10. 30 JulWhy don’t you just come out once and scream it?
11. 30 JulJohnny Unbeatable Would Have Permanently Destroyed American Conservatism
12. 30 JulPublic History and Race: European Edition
13. 30 JulTo the Fainting Couch!
14. 30 JulTone Deaf Potential Democratic Presidential Candidates
15. 30 JulBoth Sides Do It But Democrats Are Extremists
16. 30 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 294
17. 30 JulWhat Would We Be Without Wishful Thinking
18. 29 JulSuffrage and Race
19. 29 JulDems in Disarray!
20. 29 JulOn American Hegemony, Part II: Liberal Order, What is the Concept Good For?
21. 29 JulAbolish ICE
22. 29 JulAmerica’s Police Problem, Surveillance Edition
23. 29 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 293
24. 29 JulWe Are Being Led By Unimaginably Horrible People
25. 29 JulWhen He’s Right, He’s Right
26. 28 JulProtecting Powerful Harassers
27. 28 JulGive me more, drag me across the floor; shadow banning, all this and nothing more
28. 28 JulThe Worst of the twitter Left
29. 28 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 28, 1933
30. 28 JulYou Got the Silver
31. 27 JulOn American Hegemony, Part I
32. 27 JulDonald Trump Has Betrayed the Republican Party Of Thaddeus Stevens
33. 27 JulPhysicists discover first object whose velocity exceeds the speed of light
34. 27 JulDisfranchisement and Democracy: A History
35. 27 JulIf You Guys Could Nail Scott Walker That Would Be Beautiful
36. 27 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 27, 1989
37. 27 JulNo Colusion!
38. 27 JulToo Bad That Opposing Ratfucking Is McCarthyism
39. 26 JulRecipe Review: Chicken Primavera Spaghetti Squash Boats
40. 26 JulZucks 2BU: Facebook face plants XD
41. 26 JulNostalgia and the politics of reaction
42. 26 JulSeems About Right
43. 26 JulLeave Neoconfederacy to the Neoconfederates
44. 26 JulBREAKING! MUST CREDIT LGM! Politician Engages In Political Activities!
45. 26 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 292
46. 26 JulThus Spoke Sprezzatura
47. 26 JulThe Freedom is Slavering for Trump Caucus
48. 25 JulStand Your Ground Laws: The New Jim Crow
49. 25 JulDonald Trump may well be dead broke
50. 25 JulThe GOP is the Party of Identity Politics (In the Pejorative Sense)
51. 25 JulThe Real Reason Trump Won
52. 25 JulLawlessness to Prevent Sick People From Receiving Medical Care: A Definitive Republican Tale
53. 25 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 291
54. 25 JulThe Fixer, the Pecker, and Pecker
55. 25 JulAmerica’s Most Valuable Columnist
56. 24 JulThe Authoritarian Mind
57. 24 JulFear of a socialist nation
58. 24 JulFlame Is The Game, The Game We Call Gaslighting America
59. 24 JulWhy does nobody try the BOND strategy in basketball?
60. 24 JulBUFF!!!
61. 24 JulThe Majoritarian Difficulty
62. 24 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 290
63. 24 JulOn Swing Voters
64. 24 JulFleischer fantasy
65. 23 JulWho has the receipts that show Maggie Haberman is a shill?
66. 23 JulDemocrats Bad on Immigration Should Be Booed
67. 23 JulThe New Gilded Age
68. 23 JulAffection Today, Affection Tomorrow, Affection Forever
69. 23 JulTrump trying to yank security clearances of a whole bunch of top former intelligence officials
70. 23 JulFacebook and Holocaust denial
71. 23 JulChina’s VSTOL Adventure?
72. 23 JulNobody Actually Knows
73. 23 JulTrump may now be more popular (or “popular”) than ever
74. 23 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 289
75. 23 JulPutting a Corrupt, Impulsive Semi-Literate In Charge of an Immense Nuclear Arsenal Seemed Like A Great Idea, What Went Wrong?
76. 23 JulDumb Conservative Tweet of the Day
77. 23 JulWhat Scott Walker Voters Do For Fun
78. 23 JulMaxine is, a cock blocker! Maxine is, a cock blocker! Maxine is, a cock blocker now!
79. 22 JulMan Who Gave Us Trump Has Advice For Stopping Trump
80. 22 JulThe New Gilded Age Gets the Quality of Writing and Argumentation it Deserves
81. 22 JulType 055
82. 22 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 288
83. 22 JulHow Were They To Know He Was With The Russians Too?
84. 21 JulA new low for Tucker Carlson’s lawyer pal, but not the last
85. 21 JulMusic Notes
86. 21 JulOnionization at the Wall Street Journal
87. 21 JulBlocking Access to the Ballot
88. 21 JulThe Literary Canon
89. 21 Jul“That’s not supposed to happen!”
90. 21 JulTrumpists of the Past
91. 21 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 287
92. 21 Jul“Is it really so much against our law?”
93. 20 JulYour winnings, sir
94. 20 JulGee I wonder what other conversations about paying off Playboy playmates Michael Cohen taped?
95. 20 JulRepublican congressmen are probably covering up for Trump in part because they’re implicated
96. 20 JulUnmasked at last! The source of the “wires tapped” in Trump Towers.
97. 20 JulThese Are Not Very Bright Etc.
98. 20 JulFootball: The Game of Trumpists
99. 20 JulWhite Southern Elite Power
100. 20 JulThey Are Coming for the Endangered Species Act
101. 20 JulInclusive Representation Matters At The Margin
102. 20 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 286
103. 20 JulRussian Electoral Intervention: Strategic Genius or Something Else?
104. 19 JulMore Like She-WRONG
105. 19 JulElite Impunity, From Nixon to Trump
106. 19 JulThe Republican War Against Public Sector Unions Could Be Won By the 2020 Elections
107. 19 JulSupergenius Master Bragman Notes that More than One Problem Exists in the World
108. 19 JulNobody “Votes Against Their Interests”
109. 19 JulIs fake Democratic candidate Rodney Tom’s father is an overtaxed zombie?
110. 19 JulWhat does it mean to accuse Trump of treason?
111. 19 JulFred Hiatt Commissions White Nationalist to Write Egregiously Dishonest Article Advocating Ethnic Cleansing
112. 19 Jul9 Billion Plus Toast with Garlic
113. 19 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 285
114. 19 JulThose Rats Won’t Fuck Themselves!
115. 19 JulThe New York Times Just Revealed Extremely Sensitive Intelligence. What Might That Mean?
116. 19 JulThere Was Solid Intel That Putin Ordered the Ratfucking And Trump Knew It
117. 19 JulThese Are Not Very Bright Guys, And Things Got Out Of Hand
118. 19 JulWhat if the Tomcat Had Never Happened?
119. 18 JulIt’s Donald Trump’s America, We Just Live In It
120. 18 Jul2020 Democratic Selection Process to be More Democratic
121. 18 JulYou Get What You Pay For
122. 18 JulOops he did it again
123. 18 JulSacha Baron Cohen’s Lightning Strike?
124. 18 JulTrump goes on Fourteen Words With Tucker Carlson and throws NATO alliance overboard
125. 18 JulThe Wages of Global Warming
126. 18 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 284
127. 18 JulJoementum! Squared!
128. 18 JulShit shots count if the table’s tilted just pay the man who levels the floor
129. 17 JulMemorializing Fascism in Spain
130. 17 JulOur Broken Health Care System, Part the Infinity
131. 17 JulThe Small Victories
132. 17 JulWhat if you gave a toddler access to several thousand nuclear weapons?
133. 17 JulAnthony Kennedy Left the Court As an All-In Ally of Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell
134. 17 JulThe Unbearable Powerlessness of Holding Majorities in the House and the Senate
135. 17 JulRussian 2016 Electoral Interference Was Just Proof of Concept
136. 17 JulTuesday Linkage
137. 17 JulBody Language
138. 17 JulThe Empty Gaze
139. 17 JulErik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 283
140. 17 JulFeed Him To The Corgis! Notes From London’s Anti-Trump Protest
141. 17 JulI’m sure everything will return to normal, any minute now
142. 17 JulJohn Roberts Will Be Empowered to Further Undermine American Democracy
143. 17 JulVan Sant
144. 16 JulTucker Carlson: Mexico is interfering in US elections by “packing our electorate”
145. 16 JulDo Your Trump-Russia Priors Need Updating?
146. 16 JulNRA v. USA
147. 16 JulThe Collusion is Public
148. 16 JulThat New Gilded Age Economy
149. 16 JulAnother Pence Gift to the Nation
150. 16 JulHow’s That Ryan/McConnell/Trump Tax Cut Working Out For You?
151. 16 JulBy Request
152. 16 JulThe Party of Family Values
153. 16 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 282
154. 16 JulThe Election of Donald Trump Was a Crushing Blow to the Neoliberal Order
155. 15 JulThe Center of All Evil in the Universe
156. 15 JulWho Is America?
157. 15 JulThe Dispositive Case For A Sharply Increased Top Marginal Rate
158. 15 JulToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
159. 15 JulAmerica’s Police Problem, continued
160. 15 JulYour Benevolent Capitalists
161. 15 JulDemocrats Refusing to Act Like Democrats Doesn’t Help Them Win
162. 15 JulThe Art of the Steal
163. 15 JulMy friend you bow to no one
164. 15 JulErik Visits an American (Abroad) Grave, Part 281
165. 14 JulLGM Beer Talk: Rules for Beer Bars
166. 14 JulDon’t Fall for the Civility Trick
167. 14 JulSummer Food Thread
168. 14 JulThe Backscratching Manners of A Yalie
169. 14 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 280
170. 14 JulThe Anti-Anti Trump Tendency: A Play In Three Acts
171. 13 JulWitch hunt is finding a surprising number of witches
172. 13 JulHow the American Media Could Deal with Trump
173. 13 JulLynching and the West: A Racial History
174. 13 JulThe Continuing Legacy of Bhopal
175. 13 JulA Court For the New Gilded Age
176. 13 JulThe Amazing Early Progress of #AbolishICE
177. 13 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 279
178. 13 JulThe Perfect Trump Appointee
179. 12 JulNo Sense of Decency
180. 12 JulMidwest Democrats–Not All White!
181. 12 JulThe rhinoceros who was elected shortstop
182. 12 JulLet’s Reduce Superdelegate Power in the Democratic Party–And Learn Our History Properly
183. 12 JulThe Neoliberal Trade System is Dying
184. 12 JulThe Trump Breastfeeding Scandal
185. 12 JulKavanaugh Has Told Us What He Is
186. 12 JulRespond to Your Disenfranchisement At the Ballot Box!
187. 12 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 278
188. 11 JulIs the Robert Hanssen suite available?
189. 11 JulThe Bechard-Broidy-Trump saga: An update
190. 11 JulOSU’S Joe Paterno Argues Against Concept of Reporting
191. 11 JulTrump in Brussels: The Story So Far
192. 11 JulI Need to Know His Risotto Recipe
193. 11 JulCondemning Yesterday’s Racism To Justify Today’s
194. 11 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 277
195. 11 JulThe Master of the Hot Take
196. 11 JulThe Cynic
197. 11 JulMore on 3D Printing
198. 11 JulToday in the Sixth Extinction
199. 10 JulThe Myths of Roe, Pt. 1
200. 10 JulThe Leo Court
201. 10 JulThere Is No Secret Republican Plan to Preserve Roe
202. 10 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 10, 1986
203. 10 JulStarr Starr
204. 10 JulSlow learned hand
205. 10 JulThe Cult of the Court
206. 9 JulA note on the politics of legal interpretation
207. 9 JulThe Quiet Parts Loud
208. 9 JulA Political History of the Future: Tacoma
209. 9 JulLeonard Leo Is Offended That You Would Think He’s Good At His Job
210. 9 JulFascists: Past and Present
211. 9 JulI Give Up
212. 9 JulWhy do all these Russians keep helping my campaign?
213. 9 JulThe Democratic Center is Scared
214. 9 Jul#WorldCupSyllabus
215. 9 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 276
216. 9 JulLGM Beer Talk: Roy Pitz Brewing Company, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
217. 8 JulThe Art of the Northern Plains
218. 8 Jul“unholy alliance of socialists and developers”
219. 8 JulA History of America in Ten Strikes
220. 8 JulAnother Athlete Says Jim Jordan Paternoed
221. 8 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 275
222. 7 JulAll the Non-News That’s Fit To Print
223. 7 JulConcern-Trolling Meets the Pundit’s Fallacy
224. 7 JulWhy Does No One Care About Meatpackers?
225. 7 Jul“If You Define The Right As The Left, Then I Am Leftier Than Thou”
226. 7 JulAmerican Ethnic Cleansing of Days Past
227. 7 JulSometimes You Get What You Ask For
228. 7 JulErik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 274
229. 7 JulInfrastructure Week!
230. 6 JulThis can’t be real
231. 6 JulShera Bechard files lawsuit against Elliott Broidy and Michael Avenatti (!) and has the complaint immediately sealed
232. 6 JulRacism + Cruelty + Incompetence = Trump
233. 6 JulThe Ability of Elite Republicans to Fully Support Donald Trump is an Eternal Mystery
234. 6 JulThe Passion of the Dersh
235. 6 JulHow Janus Matters
236. 6 JulSocialism with Midwestern Characteristics
237. 6 JulThe National Right to Work Committee Keeps Coming for You
238. 6 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 273
239. 6 JulSchultz
240. 6 JulClass Attracts Class
241. 5 JulHillary Clinton Was the More Dangerous Evil
242. 5 JulScott Pruitt “resigns”
243. 5 JulFear of a Fair Election
244. 5 JulAmerican exceptionalism and reactionary centrists
245. 5 JulThe Trump Court
246. 5 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 272
247. 5 JulShe’s Not A Woman, She’s A Remorseless Hot Take Machine
248. 4 JulThe Coherent Anti-Interventionist Mindset of Donald Trump
249. 4 JulLiberation/Immigration
250. 4 JulPundit Who Knows Nothing About Abortion Law Confident Overruling Roe Will Be Just Fine
251. 4 JulErik Visits an American (Abroad) Grave, Part 271
252. 4 JulAthletes: Chair Of Freedom Caucus Was the Paterno of OSU
253. 4 JulToday in Something Even Darker
254. 4 JulShocking Conclusion: Russians Intervened in the 2016 Elections
255. 4 JulToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
256. 3 JulWhy won’t Elliott Broidy actually say he had an affair with Shera Bechard?
257. 3 JulBut His Compliance With Email Server Management Best Practices Is Also Terrible
258. 3 JulA Political Earthquake in New York’s 14th
259. 3 JulReturning to the Dumpster Fire
260. 3 JulI Feel That Grant Would Have Deployed a T-Rex Regiment Quite Effectively
261. 3 Jul3D Printing
262. 3 JulDear Dreher Forum
263. 3 JulThe Kind of Person Who Should Not Be In the Next Democratic Administration
264. 3 JulDid Elliott Broidy stop paying Shera Bechard because those payments were an ongoing bribe of Donald Trump and his new (actually old) criminal defense lawyer told him to stop making them?
265. 3 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 270
266. 3 JulThe Death of Civil Discourse in America
267. 2 JulHe Knows Everything About Being a Rat
268. 2 JulLast true libertarian Ron Paul tweets arguably uncivil cartoon
269. 2 JulWeaponizing the First Amendment
270. 2 JulWhite People Hate Diversity, Part the Infinity
271. 2 JulAmlo
272. 2 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 269
273. 2 JulJames Bennet shoots another brick
274. 1 JulElliott Broidy’s excellent adventure con’t
275. 1 JulSanders marched on Saturday
276. 1 JulThat’s What You Did
277. 1 Jul“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government….”
278. 1 JulSunday Funnies
279. 1 JulErik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 268
280. 1 JulThe suffocating power of our minority rule

June 2018

1. 30 JunMusic Notes
2. 30 JunBut Her Compliance With Email Server Management Best Practices
3. 30 JunThe Korematsu II Court
4. 30 JunA White House Devoid of Art
5. 30 JunCivility: Serving White Interests Forever
6. 30 JunThe Impact of Janus
7. 30 JunAuf Wiedersehen Baumholder?
8. 30 JunThe Dry Run For Trump
9. 30 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 267
10. 30 JunI Believe In America the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Party
11. 30 JunLGM Beer Talk: Wormtown Brewery, Worcester, Massachusetts
12. 29 JunAnnihilation
13. 29 JunVery Fine People at the State Department
14. 29 JunNew Music Roundup, Quarter 2
15. 29 JunThe Supreme Court’s Greatest Misses 4: Korematsu on Korematsu II
16. 29 JunApparently there are Foreign-Policy Downsides to Winging It at High-Level Negotiations
17. 29 JunNow This is How You Market Yourself to Voters
18. 29 JunThe Expanse Season 3 Open Thread
19. 29 JunGillibrand ’20!
20. 29 JunAnthony Trump Kennedy
21. 29 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 266
22. 29 JunChecking in on US Geopolitical Suicide
23. 29 JunThe Next Justice
24. 28 JunCult of Personality
25. 28 JunFascist rhetoric has consequences
26. 28 JunThe Question Is How Roe Will Be Killed, Not If
27. 28 JunA Man In Anthony Kennedy’s Position Can Afford to be Made to Look Ridiculous
28. 28 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 265
29. 28 JunThings are… not good
30. 28 JunMurc’s Law, Breaking Bad edition
31. 28 JunMake the Fuller Court Great Again
32. 28 JunOn Appalachia and Its Stereotypes
33. 27 JunGood day for the right kind of song
34. 27 JunAnthony Trump Kennedy, A Non-Appreciation
35. 27 JunThe death of democracy
36. 27 JunA Fitting Legacy for Anthony Kennedy
37. 27 JunThe Future of Unions and the Courts
38. 27 JunAnthony Kennedy retires
39. 27 JunYou have nothing to lose but your collectibles
40. 27 JunSonny Black Does Another Apolitical Application of Neutral Legal Principles
41. 27 JunErik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 264
42. 27 JunOcasio-Cortez the Incumbent Killer, and Other Stories
43. 26 JunFalling into the ugly abyss of racism
44. 26 JunReactionary centrists
45. 26 JunHere is your grade for Legal Realism 101
46. 26 JunThe Mexican is the Jew of Fascist Fascism
47. 26 JunRepublican Hacks In Full
48. 26 JunYou Said It, So I Will Too
49. 26 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 263
50. 26 Jun“A Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners”
51. 26 JunAmerican History X
52. 26 JunThe Court of Disenfranchisement *and* Big Business
53. 26 JunCivility, 2012
54. 26 JunNo Shit Sherlock!
55. 25 JunAbolish ICE
56. 25 JunElliott Broidy, Shera Bechard, Donald Trump, and the media
57. 25 JunShorter John Roberts: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to ignore states discriminating on the basis of race.”
58. 25 JunNYT does 2000th story on why nobody is doing stories on America’s most ignored demographic (white people who voted for Trump)
59. 25 JunThe Roberts Court v. Voting Rights, an Endless Series
60. 25 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 262
61. 24 JunBut What If We Reach the Bottom of a Slippery Slope We Passed 10 Miles Ago? A Concern Troll By Fred Hiatt
62. 24 JunBook Review: Jennifer Graber, The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West
63. 24 JunCriminalizing Immigration: An American History
64. 24 JunOur Media Elites, An Endless Series of Derp
65. 24 JunToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
66. 24 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 261
67. 24 JunFashion Tips For Visit to Trump Camps
68. 24 JunLGM Beer Talk: North Country Brewing, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
69. 24 JunGo Eat at Cracker Barrel, Sarah
70. 23 JunDerp, They Did It Again
71. 23 JunSincerely Held Beliefs
72. 23 JunThe Most American Thing Imaginable
73. 23 JunMore Leadership From Scott Pruitt’s EPA
74. 23 Jun“Both Sides” in History
75. 23 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 260
76. 23 JunSick fantasies being used to justify real atrocities
77. 22 JunDating While Fascist
78. 22 JunIf Democrats Oppose American Ethnic Cleansing, It Will Destroy the Bipartisan Immigration Deal Fascists Totally Want!
79. 22 JunKrauthammer
80. 22 JunHorrible white man concludes that giving a horrible white man his way is the Only Path Forward
81. 22 JunThe Least Essential Voice of the Trump Years
82. 22 JunThe 4th Amendment and Searches of Third Party Records
83. 22 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 259
84. 22 JunGrifting In Public With Your Tactical Pants Down
85. 21 JunWhat We Have Here Is A Failure to Govern
86. 21 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 258
87. 21 JunLegal Realism and the New Gilded Age
88. 21 JunThe Singapore Summit, Legitimacy, and International Status
89. 21 JunApparently Campus PC Really Is Out of Control!
90. 21 Jun2nd Amendment Remedies
91. 21 JunToo much fascism or too little civility? Which is America’s more pressing problem at the moment?
92. 20 JunRacist People (Putting Out Fire)
93. 20 JunThe New Jim Crow
94. 20 JunDon’t Assume “Something” Is Anything
95. 20 JunShaming the enablers of fascism
96. 20 JunHappy World Refugee Day!
97. 20 Jun1-877-Koncentration-Kamps-For-Kidz
98. 20 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 257
99. 20 JunSociopath Gets Appropriate Response
100. 19 JunEvil, But Not Genius
101. 19 JunThis is happening right now in this country
102. 19 JunWould you like to know more?
103. 19 JunTrump Administration Pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council
104. 19 JunA “zero tolerance” immigration primer
105. 19 JunThe Counterdemocratic Difficulty
106. 19 JunChina and the Education Industrial Complex
107. 19 JunJuneteenth
108. 19 JunSPACE FARCE!
109. 19 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 256
110. 19 JunApropos of Everything
111. 19 JunHell Exists on Earth? Oh Yes.
112. 19 JunThe Totalitarian Mind II: White Nationalist Boogaloo
113. 18 JunThe totalitarian mind
114. 18 JunBoth Sides Do It, The Unshakeable Script
115. 18 JunWell, the Report Certainly Vindicated the Pretext Trump Used to Fire Comey
116. 18 JunNo War But Trade War
117. 18 JunSupreme Court Refuses to Address Partisan Gerrymandering
118. 18 JunA Bullshit Artist Turducken
119. 18 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 255
120. 18 JunCollaborators
121. 17 JunSusan Collins: Active Supporter of American Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity
122. 17 JunThe Party of Idea
123. 17 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 254
124. 17 JunMusic Notes
125. 16 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 253
126. 16 JunJoint and several liability
127. 16 JunBlotting Out the Sun
128. 16 JunThe Republican Party Is Trump’s Party In Full
129. 15 JunTV We Didn’t Know We Needed
130. 15 JunJournalists Remain Incapable of Dealing with Trump
131. 15 JunFifty Years of (SCOTUS-legitimated) Stop-and-Frisk
132. 15 Jun“She Can Take It”
133. 15 Jun“Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy”
134. 15 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 15, 1917
135. 15 JunThe SCS
136. 15 JunNobody wants an October surprise
137. 15 JunHappy Birthday, Mr. Presidunce
138. 15 JunToday on Tucker’s White Power Hour….Mr. Glenn Greenwald, Again!
139. 14 JunNothing but respect for my president
140. 14 JunRadio Rwanda
141. 14 JunJames Comey Committed Misconduct That Affected the 2016 Elections
142. 14 JunThe civility racket
143. 14 JunIt’s Complicated
144. 14 JunIncarcerating Kids is a Lucrative Business
145. 14 Jun355?
146. 14 Jun“Persistently Illegal Conduct”
147. 14 JunThe Intellectual Derp Web
148. 14 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 252
149. 14 JunCult of personality
150. 13 JunToday In Texas Justice
151. 13 JunI was a stranger and you invited me in
152. 13 JunPompeo can’t deal questions about the details of the greatest deal ever dealt in the history of dealing
153. 13 JunEmpty Suit Republicans
154. 13 JunThe Trump Purges
155. 13 JunDemocrats are Doomed, (Another) Wisconsin Edition
156. 13 JunProfiting Off Ethnic Cleansing
157. 13 JunYou know who doesn’t talk like a tough guy?
158. 13 JunPartisan Asymmetry And the Courts
159. 13 JunToday In Trump Authoritarianism
160. 13 JunWedding Blogs and Postmodern Memory Making
161. 13 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 251
162. 13 JunMassive Resistance
163. 12 JunDispatches from the stupidest timeline
164. 12 Jun“There Are Too Many Regulations Of Business Nowadays. Please Hold Most of Them Unconstitutional. I Am Not A Crackpot.”
165. 12 JunWhy Aren’t Democrats United in Repealing the Hyde Amendment?
166. 12 JunTriumph of the shill
167. 12 JunRecipe Review: Tropical Chicken and Rice/Men Cooking Their Own Way Pasta Salad
168. 12 JunWorld Day Against Child Labor
169. 12 JunCan We Stop Venerating Capitalists as Heroes?
170. 12 JunWhen Human Rights Organizations Are as Anti-Union as GE or Honeywell
171. 12 JunThe Supreme Court’s Greatest Misses 3: The John Roberts Vote Suppression Machine Marches On
172. 12 JunA Systematic Campaign of White Supremacist Terrorism
173. 12 JunThe YUUUUUGE Summit
174. 12 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 250
175. 12 JunThe Art of the Emolument
176. 12 JunInternational House of Bad Ideas
177. 11 JunWhat Do You Think The Most Critical Point is About Our Shitshow of A Country?
178. 11 JunThe bottomless depravity of the Trump administration and its enablers
179. 11 JunThe Supreme Court Against Voting Rights
180. 11 JunAnother Post in Which LGM Tries to Distract Democrats from Enacting the Precise Policy Preferences of the Woke Left
181. 11 JunWhen Trump Voters Claim To Be Surprised By His Actions, Will Vote for His Reelection Anyway
182. 11 JunSCOTUS OKs worst state ever’s voter suppression efforts
183. 11 JunDonald Trump is Truly An Outlier in the Republican Party
184. 11 Jun“We’re America, Bitch”
185. 11 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 249
186. 11 JunFinally, A Transparent Administration That Follows the Rules
187. 10 JunThe Impossibility of Being A Pro-Trump Intellectual, An Ongoing Series
188. 10 JunA Political History of the Future: Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
189. 10 JunWith all their hockey hullabaloo, And that bitch Anne Murray too!
190. 10 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 248
191. 10 JunLGM Beer Talk: Voodoo Brewery, Meadville, PA
192. 10 JunToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
193. 9 JunLet’s Try Telling the Truth About Republican Health Care Policy Preferences For a Change
194. 9 JunThe Assassination of Al Franken by The Coward Kirsten Gillibrand, And Absolutely Nobody Else
195. 9 JunA touch of economic anxiety
196. 9 JunDEMS IN DISARRAY
197. 8 JunSarah Palin’s Role Model
198. 8 JunAdditional Bourdain Thoughts
199. 8 JunThe Republican War on the ACA, Now As Even More Farce
200. 8 JunAnthony Bourdain
201. 8 JunRudy Giuliani is a Disgusting Pig
202. 8 JunDonald Trump’s Racism Has Material Consequences
203. 8 JunHurston’s “Barracoon” and Memorials Of Loss
204. 8 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 247
205. 8 JunOntario Trumped
206. 7 JunNo Victory in Europe
207. 7 JunAll This AND Greg Gutfeld
208. 7 JunThe Racially Egalitarian American Meritocracy
209. 7 JunMore Useful Advice from Management Professors
210. 7 JunFrom Bandit to Enforcer
211. 7 JunEvery second, every minute, it keeps changing to something different
212. 7 JunEven When Grifting in the Big Leagues, Never Let the Small Advantages Go By
213. 7 JunIn Politics, The Winners Write The Narrative
214. 7 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 7, 1943
215. 7 JunStormy Daniels Claiming Her Lawyer Colluded With Michael Cohen
216. 7 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 246
217. 6 JunSupreme Court Justices Contain Multitudes
218. 6 JunNoLabelsUnityAmerica20 Has Its Candidate!
219. 6 Jun“Today’s Taliban Youth”
220. 6 JunThe Best and the Brightest
221. 6 JunThe Party of Lester Maddox
222. 6 JunLost in Space
223. 6 JunRFK, the Original Johnny Unbeatable
224. 6 JunToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
225. 6 JunBungle In the Jungle
226. 5 JunKetchup: Everything Wrong with America
227. 5 JunIt’s Trump’s America, We Just Etc.
228. 5 JunWhen Civil War Reenactors Shoot Themselves With Their Old-Timey Weapons
229. 5 JunShould Kaepernick Sue Trump?
230. 5 JunAnother Pruitt cock up
231. 5 JunDon’t Take Life Advice From People Who Hate Life
232. 5 JunI Guess It Makes Sense that the New Gilded Age Would See the Return of Coercive Medical Experiments
233. 5 JunThe NRA’s Active Participation in Mexican Crime
234. 5 JunTV Notes: “Succession”
235. 5 JunThe Narrow Way (Parts 1–3)
236. 5 JunTrump cancels football team’s visit to the White House because he’s a horrible racist
237. 5 JunCriminal Mastermind Commits More Felonies
238. 5 JunNow There’s The Inflated Sense of Self-Esteem
239. 4 JunProgressives and Trade: A Response
240. 4 JunThe absurdity of Anthony Kennedy
241. 4 JunInstitutionalized Racism Against Native Americans, Part the Infinity
242. 4 JunHow Immigrants Save Our Small Towns
243. 4 JunFables of the Deconstruction
244. 4 JunDay 500 Of The Republican Party Being What It Was Before
245. 4 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 4, 1912
246. 3 JunDo You Like a Movie that Is Objectively Bad?
247. 3 JunNot A Dime’s Worth of Difference
248. 3 JunA Modest Proposal
249. 3 JunTermination Redux: Republicans and Native Americans
250. 3 JunDrain That Swamp!
251. 3 JunIt’s a frog-eat-frog world
252. 3 JunIf the President Does It, It’s Not Illegal
253. 3 JunCould Melania Trump be annoyed with her husband about something?
254. 3 JunDaddy Issues
255. 3 JunSaturday Night Open Thread
256. 2 JunThe kinda shit you get at your grocery
257. 2 JunIs This An Acceptable Cost to Make Up for Horrible Crimes of the Past?
258. 2 JunThe Authoritarian Mind
259. 2 JunConservatives Used to Have Some Sort of Governing Philosophy, Right?
260. 2 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 245
261. 2 JunAvocado Toast for All!
262. 1 Jun“You Can’t Beat Jordan Peterson With Arguments I Attributed To You,” A Very Useful and Good Faith Argument
263. 1 JunAuthoritarian Abuses the Pardon Power
264. 1 JunProgressives and Trade
265. 1 JunDo We Need Some Friday Fun?
266. 1 JunThe Pity of Niall Ferguson
267. 1 JunLeft-Wing Campus PC Strikes Again
268. 1 JunWe could use some basketball blogging
269. 1 JunTrade Wars: The Farce Awakens
270. 1 JunMoney! Money! Money!

May 2018

1. 31 MayThe top-2 “primary” in California and Washington is a democratic abomination that violates the right to free association
2. 31 MayThe Mussolini Kabuki
3. 31 MayThe Dreamlife of Mitch McConnell
4. 31 MayWoman Who Spent 2016 Trying To Get Trump Elected Running Massive Con
5. 31 MayHappy Birthday!
6. 30 MayVirginia to Take Counterrevolutionary Measure
7. 30 MayDon’t believe liars about anything
8. 30 MayRecipe Review: General Tso’s Meatballs
9. 30 MayMurc’s Law As Farce
10. 30 MayQuick Game Rec: Gorogoa
11. 30 MayA Chill Wind Blows
12. 30 MayTech Transfer and US Universities
13. 30 MayAlito, Thomas and Models of Judicial Behavior
14. 29 MayGreitens. Going, going …
15. 29 MaySome Tuesday Links
16. 29 MayDonald Trump’s Racism Has Material Consequences
17. 29 MayRoBarr Reboot Revoked (Update)
18. 29 MayIn what ways does it matter that Trump is a horrible person?
19. 29 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 29, 1996
20. 28 MayThe eloquence of warriors
21. 28 May“Analytics” Does Not Compel Extreme Tanking Theory
22. 28 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 244
23. 28 MayIt’s Time For Some Game Theory!
24. 28 MayWhat’s Better: Flash Floods or Historic Drought?
25. 28 MayThe Technology of American Ethnic Cleansing
26. 27 MayElliott Broidy and Carla Sands
27. 27 MayThe End Of An Error
28. 27 MayProminent Trump Supporter Runs Taxpayer-Funded Boiler Room
29. 27 MayThis is America
30. 27 MayBad California Primary System Could Malfunction
31. 26 MayThe Green Lantern Theory of the Post-Presidency
32. 26 MayYou gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
33. 25 MayA Major Victory For Human Freedom, Equality, And Dignity
34. 25 MayPolice Unions are Bad: A Saga of Limitless Entries
35. 25 MayTrump Did Not Justify the Clinton Rules
36. 25 MayNorms and Democratic Values
37. 25 May1,500
38. 24 MayThe Collusion of the Stone
39. 24 MayPodcasting
40. 24 MayThe Phantom Menace Effect
41. 24 MayYou Are the Sucker, Donald the Dove Edition
42. 24 MayWhat’s Happening in Georgia?
43. 24 MayNow I’m losing touch with reality and I’m almost out of blow
44. 24 MayThe Chamber of Commerce’s Court
45. 24 MayRoth on Trump
46. 24 MayA Tale of Two Leagues
47. 24 MayThe NFL v. American Values
48. 23 MayWhen Affirmative Action Is White
49. 23 MayMarried to the mob
50. 23 MayThe NFL’s New Policy to Silence Its Players
51. 23 MayCampus P.C. Is Out of Control
52. 23 MayRoth’s Death in France
53. 23 MayThe Stickiness of the Medicaid Expansion
54. 23 MayYou’d Better Place That Call to the Taxi King
55. 23 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 23, 1950
56. 23 MayYo la tengo
57. 22 MayMurc’s Law: Clinton Rules Edition
58. 22 MayThese guys put the quid in pro quo
59. 22 MayThe Border WTF Act
60. 22 MayThe Post that Finally Gets Me Kicked off the Blog
61. 22 MayThe Constitutional Crisis is That There is No “Crisis”
62. 22 MayPUTIN PUTIN PUTIN!
63. 22 MayTuesday Linkage
64. 22 MayDid Someone Say…EMAILS?
65. 22 MayA series of truly remarkable coincidences
66. 21 MayOur Revolution Is A Useless-to-Counterproductive Vanity Project
67. 21 MayBoth Sides Do It But the Democrat Party Is More Neoliberal
68. 21 MayMisogyny and the Santa Fe Mass Killing
69. 21 MayWhy Won’t the Democrats Talk About Stuff They’re Talking About, An Ongoing Series
70. 20 MayThis is now totally normal
71. 20 MayCletus safari, Boulder County edition
72. 20 May“I Never Realized Donald Trump Was So Dangerous to the Establishment”
73. 20 MayThe value theory of labor
74. 20 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 243
75. 20 MayTrump’s Banana Republicanism
76. 19 MayOnward to Paris
77. 19 May“We Welcome Foreign Ratfucking By Anybody”
78. 19 MayLibertarian Pundit Hypes Idiotic Conspiracy Theory Being Pushed By Other Pro-Trump Propagandists
79. 18 May“I am a very serious person”
80. 18 MayThe FBI’s Cunning Plan to Kneecap Donald Trump
81. 18 MayBitcoin’s Horrible Impact on the World
82. 18 MayAt least eight killed in Texas school shooting.
83. 18 MayGag Order
84. 18 MayWhere the Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Apply
85. 18 MayRecipe Review: Vegan Potato and Broccoli Curry
86. 18 MayHousing and School Segregation: Two Sides of the Same Racist Coin
87. 18 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 242
88. 18 MayI Don’t Need That
89. 18 MayNotes from a Clown
90. 18 MayCan We Include Trump Somewhere In This for the Trifecta of My Hatred?
91. 18 May“Solutions” to Education Problems That Are Not Solutions
92. 17 May“Far Left”
93. 17 MayOur Previous Flirtation with Fascism
94. 17 MayMaybe the DCCC Should Focus on Electing Candidates Democrats Want to Vote For
95. 17 MayTorture Reaffirmed
96. 17 MayVINDICATION AT LAST!!!
97. 17 MayYou radiate cold shafts of broken glass
98. 17 MayRepublicans Elect Only The Best People
99. 17 MayThe racist scum emboldened by Donald Trump
100. 17 MayROKS Marado
101. 17 MayLGM Podcast: The Legacy of 1968, Part Deux
102. 17 MayThese Are Not Very Bright Guys
103. 17 MayYou gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking
104. 16 MayI howled at my ma in the driving rain
105. 16 MayLGM Podcast: The Legacy of 1968
106. 16 MayInstitution That Failed Massively Settles
107. 16 MayThe Are No Magic Words That Can Dispel The Idea That Liberals Are Smug Elitists
108. 16 MayCaption Contest
109. 16 MaySchooling Kanye About Slavery
110. 16 May“In education, America does everything but equity.”
111. 16 MayBibi Looks East
112. 16 MayArt in the New Gilded Age
113. 16 MayTransgender and Cynicism in Mexican Politics
114. 16 MayNeon lights, a Nobel Prize; then a mirror speaks, the reflection lies
115. 15 MayBREAKING: LGM PROVIDES YET MORE CRITICAL COVERAGE OF THE 1840 ELECTION
116. 15 MayTuesday Odds and Ends
117. 15 MayToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
118. 15 MayRepublicans: The Party of Ethnic Cleansing in Multiple Nations!
119. 15 MaySmug liberals force James Bennet to hire a pro-Trump columnist
120. 15 MayMark Warner Gets Behind Trump to Support Torturer
121. 15 MayI’m Sure There’s An Innocent Explanation
122. 15 MayTrump denialism
123. 15 May“The problem is that the voters don’t want another path”
124. 15 May“A Zionist Marie Antoinette”
125. 15 MayBlockade?
126. 14 MayMusic Notes
127. 14 MayMore Protestors No-Platformed With Live Ammunition
128. 14 MayThe Right Result For the Wrong Reasons
129. 14 MayDonald Trump’s Racism Has Material Consequences
130. 14 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 241
131. 13 May“Stop Hitting Yourself”: An Argument That Oddly Does Not Improve With Endless Repetition
132. 13 MayDonald Trump’s Latest Blow to the Neoliberal Order
133. 13 MayLet the McCain Slobberfest Begin!
134. 13 MayHow Corporations Have Destroyed Our 20th Century Literary Heritage
135. 13 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 13, 1888
136. 13 MayLuck is the Residue of Design
137. 12 MayOur Job Is To Afflict the Already Afflicted
138. 12 MayAccountable Only to Themselves
139. 11 MayMurc’s Law, Sarah Palin’s First Amendment Edition
140. 11 MayOn the Death of Scott Hutchison
141. 11 MayYoung Master Bragman Goes Nuclear
142. 11 MayThe Human Cost of Spanish Conquest
143. 11 MayUtah Public Lands Cynicism
144. 11 MayTweet and Sour (May 11, 2018) Plus Some Odds and Ends
145. 11 MayRecreating Jim Crow
146. 11 MayFrom Your Jim Crow Nostalgia File
147. 11 MayThe Red Pill
148. 11 MaySlumlord Sean
149. 10 MayQuid Pro Cohen
150. 10 MaySaving Our Public Schools
151. 10 MayStank Memes
152. 10 May“Wait! You didn’t see that you were being set up on the second win?”
153. 10 MayRudy Can Fail, A Continuing Series
154. 10 MayThe East Area Rapist Could Have Been Identified as a Suspect Before 1980
155. 10 MayLGM Podcast: The Diplomacy of Nuclear Weapons
156. 10 MayBe Prepared For Anything
157. 10 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 240
158. 10 MayCampus PC is out of control
159. 10 MayTechnology Transfer
160. 9 MayAnd I said to myself: “This is the business we’ve chosen”
161. 9 MayArea Pundit Palpably Desperate to Have Hillary Clinton to Kick Around Again
162. 9 MayLet’s Check In On James Bennet’s Other Conservative Affirmative Action Hire
163. 9 MayAre any journalists going to investigate whether Elliott Broidy paid a $1.6 million bribe to the president of the United States?
164. 9 MayThe Dreary Fanfic of Bari Weiss
165. 9 MayOhio Democrats Reject Crackpot Conspiracy Theorist Favored By Idiots and/or Republican Stooges
166. 8 MayThe Deal
167. 8 MayCertainly, he can present a bill for such services. After all, we are not Communists.
168. 8 MayDon the Con vs. Don the Con
169. 8 MayToday In Donald Trump’s Principled Non-Interventionism
170. 8 MayElliott Broidy not only bribes public officials, he has bribed at least one by paying off his girlfriend
171. 8 MayChina as Shipbuilder
172. 8 Maymy father’s way of doing things is over, it’s finished. Even he knows that. I mean, in five years, the Trump Family is going to be completely legitimate
173. 8 MayDid Elliott Broidy pay $1.6 million to cover up Donald Trump’s affair with Shera Bechard?
174. 8 MayThe “Too Valuable” Myth
175. 7 MayLGM Tourism
176. 7 MayThis Cake Really Tastes Like Shit
177. 7 May“Russian-backed terror group selects noted international arms smuggler as its new president.”
178. 7 MayI’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
179. 7 MayBREAKING: The Senate Is Massively Malapportioned
180. 7 MayChina’s CVN Ambitions
181. 7 MayAlways Be Ratfucking
182. 7 MayBlankenship Checkmates The Libs
183. 6 MayFort Monroe
184. 6 MayThe New York Times Contemplates The Possibility That Its Readers May Wish To Visit the Provinces
185. 6 MayA Political History of the Future: The City & The City
186. 6 May“To Us, It Was Better Than Citibank.”
187. 5 MayLet’s Check In On America’s Most Widely Published Silenced Voice Again
188. 5 MayDonald Trump’s Racism Has Material Consequences
189. 5 May200 Years of Marxism And Uh…Memes?
190. 4 MayTargeting Roe
191. 4 MayOpen Secrets
192. 4 MayHerrenvolk Welfare State
193. 4 MayDon’t mind him, he’s new
194. 4 MayConservatives’ Dumbest Beardo
195. 4 MayStrange Fruit
196. 4 MayThe Worst Living American
197. 3 MayIchiro!
198. 3 MayEnabling Charlie Rose
199. 3 MayNight of the long knaves, EPA vs. Interior edition.
200. 3 MayDenying the Political Potency of White Supremacy
201. 3 MayThe Chicago Trauma Center Fight
202. 3 MayThe Dan Snyders Continue to Set New Standards of Loathsomeness
203. 3 MayThis Situation Calls For Rudy Guiliani!
204. 3 MayDon’t bother they’re here
205. 3 MayA Plea For Civil Discourse
206. 2 MayHating Ross Douthat is Normal and Healthy but the Surgeon General Recommends You Hate Him for the Right Reason
207. 2 MaySometimes, “Radical” Ideas Are Just Dumb
208. 2 MayWednesday Links
209. 2 MayPundit Argues It’s Wrong In Principle to Criticize the Media’s Indefensible Performance Again
210. 2 MayGrand Re-Re-Opening
211. 2 MayNo One Fights Harder for Our Kids Than Public School Teachers
212. 2 MayUpdates!
213. 2 MayCriminalizing Supporters of Justice is a Key Play in the Fascist Playbook
214. 2 May“E.P.A. Always. Be. Closing.”
215. 1 MayImpossible Plutocratic Dilemmas
216. 1 MayCampus PC is out of control
217. 1 MayF-35 in the Body of an F-22?
218. 1 MayThat Is One Drained Swamp!
219. 1 MayArguments Against a Federal Job Guarantee–From the Left?
220. 1 MayHow Corporations Lobby Around Problems
221. 1 MayOur Endangered Health Care Workers
222. 1 MayICE’s War on the Constitution
223. 1 MayNorth Korean Preferences
224. 1 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 1, 1943
225. 1 MaySay a prayer for the common foot soldier, spare a thought for his back breaking work

April 2018

1. 30 AprLet’s Move Nashville
2. 30 AprWill The Times Ever Hire A Political Columnist To Replace Maureen Dowd?
3. 30 AprHow a Single Person Can Raise Awareness About Global Labor Exploitation
4. 30 AprBarracoon
5. 30 AprWhy Full Employment Now?
6. 30 AprMarx at 200
7. 30 AprJonathan Chait Is Wrong Again (This Time About Job Guarantees)
8. 30 AprOn the Deletion of Kevin Williamson
9. 30 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 239
10. 30 AprNewsflash: The nascent fascism of the Republican Party and its journalistic enablers isn’t actually a good topic for a celebrity roast
11. 30 AprMaking Chicken Shit Out of Sichuan Chicken Salad
12. 30 AprAvengers
13. 29 AprCillizza’d
14. 29 AprMore Please
15. 29 AprIn no particular order
16. 29 AprOn the Assassination Of Sarah Sanders By the Coward Michelle Wolf
17. 29 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 238/Dead Horses in American History, Part 18
18. 29 AprMusic Notes
19. 28 AprCollege Kids Need to Suck It Up And Stop Wh…I mean, Trump Supporters, Like Conservative Op-Ed Columnists, Need Safe Spaces To Avoid Bring Triggered
20. 28 AprThe Long Arm of Treason in Defense of Slavery Nostalgia
21. 28 AprToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
22. 28 AprNorth Korea Thinking
23. 28 AprWhen you really think about it, going to bed hungry and going to bed horny are not that different at all, really
24. 28 AprThe Love Song of M. Dean Cohen
25. 28 AprRed State Work Force
26. 28 AprAlso, If You Tweet Your Disagreement With the Author It Will Be Worse Than Nagasaki and Hiroshima Put Together
27. 28 AprNotes on North Korea
28. 27 AprJon McNaughty
29. 27 AprA Series of Fortunate Set Designs
30. 27 AprHow Were We To Know She Was With the Russians Too?
31. 27 AprTrumpe l’oeil
32. 27 AprJust Say Yes–To Public Banking!
33. 27 AprJ.D. Vance Is An Asshole
34. 27 AprToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
35. 27 AprThe Supreme Court’s Greatest Misses #2A: The Case Nazis Cited At Nuremberg
36. 27 AprThe American Auto Industry: Continuing to Be Led By Geniuses
37. 27 AprKanye loves you. But everyone else still thinks you’re an asshole.
38. 27 AprGetting rid of the Electoral College to own the libs
39. 27 AprAnd Now I’m Gonna Have To Turn My Back On You
40. 27 AprToday in the War on the 4th Amendment
41. 26 AprNFL Draft Open Thread: Any Team That Spends A High Pick on Josh Allen is Completely Incompetent Edition
42. 26 AprNFL Draft Open Thread
43. 26 AprThe way to perpetuate discrimination on the basis of race is to ignore discrimination on the basis of race.
44. 26 AprCosby Guilty
45. 26 AprThe Nation, Syria, and the Truth about Chemical Weapons
46. 26 AprKevin Williamson Continues His “Silenced In Prominent Forums” World Tour With Disingenuous Golden Oldie
47. 26 AprRussia’s Carrier Programs
48. 26 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 237
49. 26 AprToday Among Our Overcompensated and Underachieving Elites
50. 26 AprThey already don’t have much, why not take more from them?
51. 26 AprSuch Great Heights
52. 25 AprI expect nothing less from this administration – Tough on Drugs edition
53. 25 AprHe Seems Nice
54. 25 AprElite Republicans Continue to Stand Up to Donald Trump
55. 25 AprJobs for All!
56. 25 AprTriangular Diplomacy
57. 25 AprThis is Excellent News For John McCain
58. 25 AprMAGA Through Fast Food Nostalgia??
59. 25 AprWhen Democracy Doesn’t Serve Republican Interests, Republicans Turn Against Democracy, Missouri Edition
60. 25 AprThe Quiet Parts Loud
61. 24 AprThe aristocrats
62. 24 AprToday In Donald Trump’s America
63. 24 Apr“It’s Over”: How the WikiLeaks Emails Were Handled
64. 24 AprVineyard Monocultures
65. 24 AprThe Deportation Machine
66. 24 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 236
67. 23 AprAmerica’s Most Principled Man of Principle Engages In Latest Act of Principle
68. 23 AprReal Americans Eat French’s
69. 23 AprBardish Birthday: Shakespeare Around The Globe
70. 23 AprAn Administration Committed to Discrimination
71. 23 AprDonald Trump has a high probability of getting re-elected
72. 23 AprThe Full Employment Train Rolls Ahead
73. 23 AprThe Republican Party in 2018 In One Paragraph
74. 23 Apr“We Did Nothing Wrong Ever,” The Ballad of Dean Baquet
75. 23 AprMeet the Women and Children Making Your Clothes
76. 23 AprDamon Linker Freaks Out about Scott
77. 23 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 235
78. 23 AprScott Pruitt Has Always Been Scott Pruitt And Will Always Be Scott Pruitt
79. 23 AprUtahns less than enthused by plywood Michiganian & Bay Stater who wants to be their senator
80. 22 Apr“I Never Thought I’d Say This…To the Federal Government!” [Clicks champagne glass]
81. 22 AprTweet and Sour: Real Men Don’t Smile Edition, April 22
82. 22 AprResist the Fascists!
83. 22 AprOrganize the Campaign Staffs
84. 22 AprA Sunday Sermon, Straight from 1947
85. 21 AprTheater Criticism Coverage of Politics Turns People’s Minds Into Mush
86. 21 AprToday In American Ethnic Cleansing
87. 21 AprCatch A Wave
88. 21 AprChristian Persecution
89. 21 AprYes, In Fact I Do Like It When Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Adopt My Precise Policy Positions
90. 21 AprEver More IP
91. 21 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 21, 1545
92. 21 AprIt’s Like 10,000 Spoons When All You Need Is An FBI Director Who Won’t Tamper With Elections
93. 20 AprHow Your Godawful Contrarian Sausage Gets Made
94. 20 AprA Big Tent Democratic Party is Probably Not a Major Problem
95. 20 AprThe confidence man
96. 20 AprThe Next Stage in the Teachers Struggle
97. 20 AprSESTA-FOSTA Is Atrocious Legislation That Will Kill People
98. 20 AprDamn 4
99. 20 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 234
100. 20 AprCampus PC Is Out of Control
101. 19 AprRudy can fail
102. 19 AprWhat Problem Does Ending the Two Party System Solve?
103. 19 AprThe Concerns of the World’s Worst Deliberative Body
104. 19 AprBlack in America
105. 19 AprChallenge Politicians Living Political Money on the Table in Primaries
106. 19 AprFood Rut: Recipe Open Thread
107. 19 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 233
108. 19 AprToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
109. 19 AprI Know Everything About Being a Rat
110. 18 AprBaserunning and risk aversion (baseball stats puzzler)
111. 18 AprNIMBYs Prevail in California
112. 18 AprTheir Offer Is This: To Do Nothing
113. 18 AprThe Future of the GOP Is Filled With Only The Best People
114. 18 AprLGM Podcast: Transit!
115. 18 AprHome Care Workers and the Future of Work
116. 18 AprMissing The Point Of #Beychella
117. 18 Apr#MeToo Unfairly Results In Person Losing His Job!
118. 18 AprWhen did Jews become white?
119. 18 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 232
120. 18 AprMediocre White Guy With Highly Compensated Sinecure More Secure Than An Article III Judgeship Wants You To Stop Talking About Privilege
121. 17 AprWeird Gelatin Molds: A Tuesday Evening Open Thread
122. 17 AprMake the Gilded Age Great Again
123. 17 AprMilos Forman
124. 17 AprAmerica’s Prison System is a Moral Abomination
125. 17 AprProgressive Programs Don’t *Have* to be Universal to be Popular
126. 17 AprThe Republican Legislative Record Will Be Golden This Fall!
127. 17 AprThe Gulf Stream
128. 17 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 231
129. 17 AprTrump Displays Independence From the Republican Coalition!
130. 17 AprHarry
131. 16 AprAnd Mystery Client #3 is … (2 updates)
132. 16 AprPurge Charter School Advocates from the Democratic Party
133. 16 AprFrance’s Carrier Future
134. 16 AprThe “NY Bureau Made Comey Do It” Defense Is Exceptionally Weak
135. 16 AprMurc’s Law As Self-Parody
136. 16 AprA Tale of Two Headlines
137. 16 AprBlack in America
138. 16 AprLet’s Meet Some of the Women Making Your Clothing
139. 16 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 16, 1947
140. 16 AprThe Comey Show
141. 15 AprRepublicans are the PARTY OF IDEAS! (TM), Have You Heard Our Original Take That IDENTITY POLITICS Are Bad Edition
142. 15 AprToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
143. 15 AprSexual Assault and Precarious Work: An Epidemic
144. 15 AprIs Legalized Cannabis Here to Stay?
145. 15 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 230
146. 15 AprAn Asshole Says What?
147. 15 AprSaturday Open Thread
148. 14 AprBlack in America
149. 14 Apr“Okay, what are we trying to capture here?” “Consciousness.”
150. 14 AprThe Muntz Doctrine
151. 14 AprThe Teachers’ Movement Spreads
152. 14 AprPretty Clear That There’s Only One Path Ahead for Democrats, and That’s Supporting Bombing Brown People and Blaming Black People for Their Own Poverty
153. 14 AprWorst Five!
154. 14 AprAmerica’s Overpaid and Underachieving Elites Outdoing Themselves in East Lansing
155. 14 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 229
156. 14 AprMadman Orders Senseless Military Attack
157. 13 AprField Commander Cohen, He Was Our Most Important Bagman
158. 13 AprComey and the Clinton Rules
159. 13 AprLGM Podcast: Bhagwan’s Best
160. 13 AprPaul Ryan Is Not A Sellout Or Tragic Figure
161. 13 AprIndia’s Carrier Ambitions
162. 13 AprWhere’s Our Money?
163. 13 AprThe Charter School Lobby
164. 13 AprDirect Action Works, Part the Infinity
165. 13 AprA Liberal Is Someone Who Won’t Take His Own Side In A Fight
166. 13 AprObstruction of justice
167. 13 Apr“These Are Not Very Bright Guys”
168. 12 AprNHL Playoff Preview: Give Chiarelli a Lifetime Contract Edition
169. 12 AprWill Trump run for re-election?
170. 12 AprWillie Mays’s salary
171. 12 AprWhy Won’t Trump Quit?
172. 12 AprEarnest Policy Wonk Just Not Made For These Times
173. 12 AprTrump, China, and IP
174. 12 AprI Said From the First, He Was the Worst Kind of Guy
175. 12 AprThursday Links
176. 12 AprThe Meat Industry and Exploited Undocumented Labor
177. 12 AprWhat Do You Suggest for the Post-Employment Economy?
178. 12 Apr10 7
179. 12 AprWhat is Paul Ryan’s Predecessor Up To?
180. 12 AprThe GOP Move to Overturning Brown is Lovely
181. 11 AprYou *Are* the Sucker, Jane Galt Edition
182. 11 AprThe Mechanism For Removing Trump And His Enablers is the Ballot Box
183. 11 AprJanesville (Or, What’s Next for Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional?)
184. 11 AprAsshole Skeleton Husband
185. 11 AprMeet the only current GOP candidate for what was Paul Ryan’s seat in Congress
186. 11 AprPaul Ryan Is Leaving Congress
187. 11 AprThe Fair Housing Act at 50
188. 11 AprNew Music Roundup
189. 11 AprJeff Sessions, Civil Libertarian, and Other Delusions
190. 10 AprRand Paul, Principled Man of Principle
191. 10 AprWhy Charles Murray Promotes Racist Junk Science
192. 10 AprTaika Waititi Has Never Been “Your Māori”
193. 10 AprThe Art of the Self-Deal
194. 9 AprNormalizing Trump
195. 9 AprFrom Deep Throat to Deep State
196. 9 AprIt Was A Dark and Stormy Afternoon
197. 9 AprThe Imaginary Liberal Consensus
198. 9 AprOur own nick056 on the Kevin Williamson Controversy
199. 9 AprA Political History of the Future: The Expanse
200. 9 AprIt must be nice to be born without a sense of shame.
201. 9 AprHappy Crushing Treason in Defense of Slavery Day!!
202. 9 AprThe Silence
203. 9 AprOn the Shameful Abrogation of Kevin Williamson’s Inalienable Right to Troll the Specific Audience of His Choice
204. 9 AprWhy college isn’t the answer to social inequality
205. 8 AprLetting People Die For Fun and Profit
206. 8 AprToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
207. 8 AprRed Lines
208. 8 AprDrain That Swamp!
209. 8 AprToday in Legacy Publications Trolling Liberals
210. 7 AprMusic Notes
211. 7 AprFreedom on the Move
212. 7 AprTreason in Defense of Extremist Perversions of the Second Amendment
213. 7 AprToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
214. 7 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 228
215. 7 AprSupport at elite law firms for Trump
216. 6 AprTweet and Sour: Odds and Ends Edition (April 6, 2018)
217. 6 AprCecil Taylor, RIP
218. 6 AprThe GOP’s $84,000 Pajama Boy will spend time with whoever will tolerate him
219. 6 AprI Will Most Assuredly Get Fooled Again
220. 6 AprElections have consequences (Virginia edition)
221. 6 AprThe paranoid style rebooted
222. 6 AprTourney Challenge Champion!
223. 6 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 6, 1712
224. 6 AprCapital Strike?
225. 5 AprOut-Trumping Trump
226. 5 Apr2016’s Most Influential White Nationalist Rich Failson
227. 5 AprWhen someone tells you who they are, believe them
228. 5 AprKing Commemorations and Coalition Politics
229. 5 AprPanic In D.C.
230. 5 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 5, 1938
231. 5 AprThe Odious Robert Mueller
232. 4 AprBut His Emails
233. 4 AprNo Collusion to See Here
234. 4 AprThe two fesses of Chris Cillizza
235. 4 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 227
236. 4 AprDid Someone Say…EMAILS?
237. 4 AprRemembering King’s Economic Justice Agenda
238. 4 AprThis morning in the Dunning-Kruger presidency
239. 4 AprHillary Must Have Visited!
240. 4 AprHow to be a Hack, With Hugh Hewitt
241. 3 AprThe Bad Boys Logicbrain Club
242. 3 AprLook What You Made Us Do
243. 3 AprThe Horror of Trump’s America
244. 3 AprWhat if Clinton had won?
245. 3 AprOppression Through Census
246. 3 AprWhat An Amazing Coincidence
247. 2 AprWaPo Shoots Another Brick
248. 2 AprShe honkered juggsily towards the breasted door
249. 2 AprCritically Important Journalism
250. 2 AprQualified Immunity As An Absolute Shield
251. 2 AprThe Upcoming Pension Collapse
252. 2 AprThe Teachers’ Revolt Continues
253. 2 AprThe Party of the Working Class
254. 2 AprHogg Derangement Syndrome
255. 2 AprThe Sinclair Propaganda Network
256. 2 AprHillary Clinton Was, If Anything, Too Prepared
257. 2 AprTweet and Sour: April Tools Edition
258. 1 AprMLB Opening Week Open Thread 2
259. 1 AprEfraín Ríos Montt is Dead. Greatest. Easter. Ever.
260. 1 AprLord: You know it’s always very easy to blame the killer after another mass shooting, but how often do you think we should be blaming the killer’s victims?
261. 1 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 226
262. 1 AprThe Bail Racket

March 2018

1. 31 MarFar From Over
2. 31 Mar#KillAllMen Is Feminist Liberation Through Satire
3. 31 MarAnother Life That Didn’t Matter
4. 30 MarHating Nickelback Is Lazy
5. 30 MarSatire 2
6. 30 MarAmerican Conservatism Is Trumpism and Trumpism Is American Conservatism
7. 30 MarPost-Izumo
8. 30 MarThe Election of Donald Trump Was A Blow to the Neoliberal Order
9. 30 MarSome Friday Links: Alpha Cat Edition
10. 30 MarRedlining’s Legacy
11. 30 MarThe GOP Hatred of the Poor: As Pure as Tennessee Whiskey
12. 30 MarBook Review: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
13. 30 MarStephen Reinhardt
14. 30 MarDemocracy in Wisconsin
15. 30 MarThe Material Effects of Donald Trump’s Racism, HUD Edition
16. 29 MarLaura Ingraham is rejected by three advertisers and whines about it
17. 29 Mar#SlatePitch: Kirsten Gillibrand In MAJOR SEX-SLAVE CULT SCANDAL (Correction: Pretty Much Every Word Of This Story Was Wrong)
18. 29 MarI Can’t Believe It’s a Law Firm LLC
19. 29 MarSchatz
20. 29 MarThe NRA: Bitter and clinging to its good guy with a gun narrative
21. 29 MarTokyo’s View of the “Bloody Nose”
22. 29 MarOpening Day Open Thread
23. 29 MarPardon You
24. 29 MarYou’ll Destroy my Art Career? Buddy, I Don’t HAVE an Art Career.
25. 29 MarToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
26. 29 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 29, 1937
27. 29 MarThe Inefficient Construction of Infrastructure Is A Major Problem
28. 29 MarThe Chicago Team You Should Be Cheering For
29. 28 MarBud Light
30. 28 MarTerrible Takes on Journalism From America’s Beltway Elites
31. 28 Mar“Hey hey, NRA, how many kids have you killed today?”
32. 28 MarCarter
33. 28 MarA feces panini that hates tRump is still a feces panini
34. 28 MarIt’s Just A Question Of What Your Red Lines Are
35. 28 MarLGM Podcast: Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism
36. 28 MarLGM Tourney Challenge Update
37. 28 MarIntentionally, And Irritatingly, Like A Martyr
38. 28 MarWhy Incumbent Resignations Matter
39. 27 MarAfter capitalism?
40. 27 MarThe Material Effects of Donald Trump’s Racism
41. 27 MarMexico, military. Something that begins with M will pay for the wall.
42. 27 MarBuilding More Housing Does Not Necessarily Lead to Cheaper Housing Without Government Regulation
43. 27 MarCover up and collusion at Michigan State
44. 27 MarRepeal the Second Amendment
45. 27 MarThe Ballad of the Never Trumper, A Continuing Series
46. 27 MarI Saw Emmett Till This Week at the Grocery Store
47. 27 MarLinda Brown
48. 27 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 225
49. 27 MarHumorless Meninists Suspended Me From Twitter
50. 27 MarPay For Play
51. 26 MarThe consent of the governed
52. 26 MarSIGsexuals react to March for Our Lives with their usual tact and restraint
53. 26 MarIf you don’t center the interests of white people, you’re engaging in IDENTITY POLITICS
54. 26 Mar“We Are Discriminating Against You For Your Own Good”
55. 26 MarA Political History of the Future: Iain M. Banks
56. 26 MarTrump’s payoffs are a much bigger national security issue than Hillary Clinton’s email server
57. 26 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 224
58. 26 MarAnother One Gone
59. 25 MarDan Savage Was Too Kind
60. 25 MarToday in Armed and Violent American Assholes, A Long Tradition
61. 25 MarVixens Engaging with Nymphomaniacs to Un-eroticize Stuff.
62. 25 MarThe Silence Heard Round the World
63. 24 MarMusic Notes
64. 24 MarThe Value of Protest in American Politics
65. 24 MarMarch for Our Lives
66. 24 MarNorman Mailer Was Never Violent Towards Women, With Notably Rare Exceptions
67. 24 MarThe Identity Politics President
68. 24 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 223
69. 23 MarHot and Thirsty: A Friday Night Open Thread
70. 23 MarZell Miller
71. 23 MarThe Most New Gilded Age Move Imaginable
72. 23 MarThe Fox and Friends Presidency
73. 23 MarAre you provoked yet?
74. 23 MarMike Pence’s Gay Bunny
75. 23 MarHow to win friends and influence people
76. 23 MarDonald Trump’s Most Non-Interventionist Appointment Yet
77. 23 MarGuccifer
78. 22 MarThe United States of Misogyny
79. 22 MarFederally Guaranteed Employment Can Be Politically Popular
80. 22 MarThe best things in life are free
81. 22 MarAnniversary of a world-historical catastrophe
82. 22 MarWalls, Walls Everywhere!
83. 22 MarWhy Republicans Won’t Do Anything When Trump Fires Mueller
84. 21 MarLet’s Check In On Tucker Carlson’s House of Smarm And White Nationalism
85. 21 MarShut Up and Take My Money
86. 21 MarRacism in Action
87. 21 MarPrimaries
88. 21 MarThe Continued Teachers’ Revolt
89. 21 MarHappy Ludendorff Day!
90. 21 MarThe perfect lawyer for the man
91. 21 MarTrump In Court
92. 21 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 222
93. 21 MarSome people say that there’s a woman to blame, and it sure beats admitting it was my own damn fault
94. 21 MarExtremely Rare Link Thread
95. 20 MarJust What Our Intellectual Discourse Needed: A More Masculinist, Authoritarian, and Vastly More Pretentious Tony Robbins
96. 20 MarAlinsky Is Good Now
97. 20 MarShit shots count if the table’s tilted
98. 20 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 20, 1991
99. 20 MarUndue Burden
100. 19 MarFederally Guaranteed Employment
101. 19 MarMen Were Made for Silence
102. 19 MarImpeachment in theory and practice
103. 19 MarChallenging Cuomo
104. 19 MarAttack on rule of law to attack democracy fails
105. 19 MarNorth Korea’s Big Bet
106. 19 MarStill Mad Bros?
107. 18 MarFacebook and Cambridge Analytica
108. 18 MarTweet and Sour: March 18, 2018
109. 18 MarUnable to find a safe space, dapper white punching dummy abandons college tour
110. 18 MarTrump is going to fire Mueller soon
111. 18 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 221
112. 17 MarThe Dowd Report
113. 17 MarSome Thoughts on Tex-Mex
114. 17 MarBreaking! Sexist and Racist Asshole Shown to Be Sexist and Racist Asshole
115. 17 MarFire Sale
116. 17 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 17, 1921
117. 17 MarTrying to Silence Stormy
118. 17 MarThe Greatest Upset in NCAA Tournament History
119. 17 MarOur Banana Republic
120. 17 MarNation’s Foremost Moral Sage Defends Trump, Flag
121. 17 MarAlfred Crosby, RIP
122. 16 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 220
123. 16 MarRichard Russell Would be Proud
124. 16 MarSome Friday Links
125. 16 MarShelby County, But For Finance
126. 16 MarChecking in with Jesse Richman
127. 16 Mar“By ‘swamp’ we meant ‘your money,’ and by ‘drain’ we meant ‘take it for ourselves,’ so we were telling the truth”
128. 15 MarThe Captain of Everything
129. 15 MarICE is a recent creation that has been a disaster and should be abolished
130. 15 MarToday among our overcompensated and underachieving elites
131. 15 MarOlive Garden
132. 14 MarFred Hiatt’s favorite torture apologist supports sadistic torturer for head of CIA
133. 14 MarSaccone Out Like A Lamb
134. 14 MarPlease help me pick a headline for this blog post (update)
135. 14 MarFormer (?) $100,000 per month cocaine addict with no training in economics who has a historical 100% error rate in regard to economic predictions named nation’s top economic adviser
136. 14 MarThe Election of Donald Trump Was A Populist Blow Against Neoliberalism
137. 14 MarOldmen Cats, RIP
138. 14 MarLGM Podcast: Tariffs, Tillerson, and M(LGMCS)GA
139. 14 MarLGM Tourney Challenge Reminder
140. 14 MarTrump administration official a venal liar
141. 14 MarNAFTA, Deportations, and Mexican Farm Laborers
142. 14 MarPa18
143. 14 MarCan’t We Spend More Time Discussing the Truly Great Acts in Rock History, By Which I Mean Any Act Producing Hits Between 1965 and 1973
144. 13 MarToday in Poorly Conceived Recreation Ideas
145. 13 MarWays Trump Can Improve His Support Among White Evangelicals
146. 13 MarAmy Wax removed from teaching required first year courses at Penn Law School
147. 13 MarAt least Donald Trump will curtail the excesses of the deep state
148. 13 MarA Political History of the Future: Altered Carbon
149. 13 MarA People’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 12: The Mutant Metaphor (Part IV)
150. 13 MarSUPPORT OUR TROOPS (THAT WE WANT TO MURDER)
151. 13 MarRexit 2
152. 13 MarTheoretical
153. 13 MarPutin fires Tillerson
154. 13 MarTrump’s Innocence Established By Thorough, Impartial Investigation
155. 12 MarJudicial Review, Democracy, and the Fragility of Judicial Power
156. 12 MarPA-18 Will be Excellent News For John McCain
157. 12 MarWhy I’m Relieved Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Writing Captain America
158. 12 MarToday Among Our Special Elite Media Snowflakes
159. 12 MarNorth Korea Talks!
160. 12 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 219
161. 12 MarThe Supreme Court’s Greatest Misses, #1A: The Impropriety of John Roberts
162. 11 MarHans Against America
163. 11 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 11, 1811
164. 11 MarThe Importance Of Mobilizing Obama-to-Nonvoters
165. 11 MarWelcome to the United States
166. 11 Mar“If I Close My Eyes And Ignore the Bad News, It Still Won’t Affect Me”
167. 10 MarLGM Tourney Challenge
168. 10 MarAnd Readers Were Provoked
169. 10 MarOn the Bank Deregulation Bill
170. 10 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 10, 1979
171. 10 MarSadly, Cooley Law School *Is* Sending Its Best
172. 10 MarGuess Who’s Building Nuclear Power Plants?
173. 9 MarTweet and Sour: March 9, 2018
174. 9 Mar“But Much More Frequently the Latter.”
175. 9 MarEisenhower
176. 9 MarDemocrats and Trade
177. 9 MarToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
178. 9 MarCampus PC Is Out Of Control
179. 9 MarMore Book News!
180. 9 MarWhat’s Your Theme Song?
181. 9 MarHouse of Wax
182. 9 MarYou Tell ‘Em Rafael!
183. 8 MarA Wrinkle in Crime
184. 8 MarCampus PC and Free Speech
185. 8 MarAttack Helicopters and Conservative Comedy
186. 8 MarPretending to Know Things You Don’t Know Is Not A Sound Basis For Action
187. 8 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 218
188. 8 MarDid Someone Say…EMAILS?
189. 8 MarVery stable genius tampers with witnesses, forgets he asked his lawyer to fire Mueller
190. 8 MarJames Bennet Affirmative Action Hire Has Another Nuclear Take For You
191. 7 MarMiso Ornery
192. 7 MarAll-Powerful Party Cabal Crushes Dissent Again
193. 7 MarFoundation for Defense of Autocracy
194. 7 MarCohn Job
195. 7 MarLady Lex
196. 7 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 7, 1905
197. 7 MarThe Party of Ideas (TM)
198. 7 MarCillizza Destroyed
199. 7 MarPorn star signed NDA with Donald Trump in which he agreed not to reveal he had an affair with her
200. 7 MarWe May Never Be Able to Explain Paul Ryan’s Completely Consistent and Transparent Actions
201. 6 MarDiaz’s Toilet
202. 6 MarThe Wire at 10
203. 6 MarThe Federal Spending Power, Sebelius, and Empty Formalism
204. 6 MarAdditional Thoughts on Chinese Hegemony
205. 6 MarThe Activist Surge
206. 6 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 217
207. 6 MarWell my ship’s been split to splinters and it’s sinkin’ fast; I’m drownin’ in the poison, got no future, got no past
208. 5 MarTrump Aide Pursues Compelling Legal Strategery
209. 5 Mar“I Would Not Want to Influence an Election, With Notably Rare Exceptions”
210. 5 MarThe Evitable Yemen Catastrophe
211. 5 MarOur man in Moscow
212. 5 MarWhy She Went On Strike
213. 5 MarJS Izumo, and the History of Convertible Aircraft Carriers
214. 4 MarHow Your Oscars Sausage Gets Made
215. 4 MarVery Enthusiastic Nymphs Unbound by their Sex.
216. 4 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 216
217. 4 MarCorporations Shouldn’t Be Political Except When They Should
218. 3 MarTweet and Sour: March 3, 2018
219. 3 Mar“The public’s out there throwing darts at a board, sport. I don’t throw darts at a board – I bet on sure things.”
220. 3 MarTrotsky’s Toilet
221. 3 MarAre You Tired Of All the Winning Yet?
222. 3 MarPoopin’ to Own the Libs
223. 3 MarOn Avoiding Kneejerk Politics
224. 3 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 215
225. 3 MarThe West Virginia Strike
226. 3 MarIn Five Years the Kushner Family Will Be Completely Legitimate
227. 2 MarCulture Dance Battle!
228. 2 MarPaul Ryan, Man of Integritude and Seriousity
229. 2 MarFriday Links
230. 2 MarSekigawa’s Hiroshima
231. 2 MarExpand the Field
232. 2 MarScenes from the Pittsburgh Airport
233. 2 MarUtah House Republicans Made a Rap Video
234. 2 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 2, 1937
235. 2 MarOur Crapo Government
236. 2 MarOur Very Own Mandela Speaks
237. 1 MarMcMaster on way out?
238. 1 MarGovernment by Trolling
239. 1 MarThe Kerner Commission
240. 1 MarEverybody run! The orange angry peen’s grabbing guns!
241. 1 MarTrump’s Corruption is Probably Worth Highlighting
242. 1 MarA. Always B. Be. G. Grifting
243. 1 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 214
244. 1 MarCash is the Dankest Kush

February 2018

1. 28 FebHope Floats
2. 28 FebThe Party of the Rule of Law
3. 28 FebAnd then we gave school superintendents shoulder-fired stinger missiles
4. 28 Feb“Free Speech” As A Republican Weapon
5. 28 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 213
6. 28 FebThey went to Jared
7. 27 FebDeep Thoughts From America’s Complacent Affluent Elites
8. 27 FebAnthony Kennedy, Hack
9. 27 FebHow to recognize different types of white supremacists from quite a long way away
10. 27 FebThe “Crisis Actor” claim — a classic Dixie dog whistle
11. 27 FebToday in the Sixth Extinction
12. 27 FebImmigrants Rotting in Prison Will Show The Neoliberals That The Left Can’t Be Blackmailed!
13. 27 FebChildren and Activism
14. 27 FebThe Election of Donald Trump Was the End of Neoliberalism
15. 27 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 212
16. 26 FebCampus PC Is Out of Control
17. 26 FebDonnie woulda run (Update – Gov. Inslee has a request)
18. 26 FebDonald Trump would have charged into school and stopped assault rifle-wielding murderer with his bare hands
19. 26 FebMore on Amy Wax and the right-wing academic martyr racket
20. 26 FebPerformativity in Activism
21. 26 FebCivil Rights Nostalgia
22. 26 FebThrow the Book at Me (Book Thread)
23. 26 FebAfflictions
24. 26 FebThe Real Scandal Is What Isn’t Legal
25. 26 FebDonald Trump is historically unpopular because everyone hates him except old white men
26. 26 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 211
27. 25 FebThat Sky Continues to Fall
28. 25 FebWhat is the Working Class?
29. 25 FebGun Rights and Civil Rights, The Hidden History
30. 25 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 210
31. 24 FebSchiff Memo Released
32. 24 FebWhat Students Can Teach Us
33. 24 FebHow do you do, fellow millennials?
34. 24 FebI may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to poison the culture and make lots of money by publishing it in my newspaper
35. 24 FebHeckuva Job Trumpy
36. 24 FebThe Mob
37. 24 FebLGM Podcast: China and the Big Questions of the 21st Century, Part II
38. 24 FebDonald Trump, Orthodox-Innovator
39. 24 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 209
40. 24 FebJared Kushner, International Man of Mystery
41. 23 FebPrisoner’s dilemma
42. 23 FebRepublicans Terrified By Rules Tilted Only Slightly In Their Favor
43. 23 FebThe Jew is the Jew of Modern GOP Fascism
44. 23 FebDavid Zwick and the Passage of an Age of Environmentalism
45. 23 FebLGM Podcast: China and the Big Questions of the 21st Century Part I
46. 23 FebA New Weekly Feature: Tweet and Sour
47. 23 FebNow I gotta turn my back
48. 23 FebThe Death Cult and The Big Money
49. 23 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 208
50. 23 FebWhat An AR-15 Does
51. 22 FebMore Manafort Charges
52. 22 FebGuns and capitalism
53. 22 FebViolence, Slavery, and the Human Experience
54. 22 FebThe Immigration Debate
55. 22 FebThe Kids Are Alright
56. 22 FebThe One-Way Empathy Ratchet
57. 22 FebThe Nuclear Posture Review Misrepresents Russian Nuclear Doctrine
58. 22 FebOccam’s Razor Says There Was Collusion
59. 22 FebThe Republican War on Democracy
60. 21 FebFox’s book of martyrs
61. 21 FebMake America Toxic Again
62. 21 FebFlorida House Tackling the Hard Issues
63. 21 FebToday In the Perfect American Meritocracy
64. 21 FebBilly Graham
65. 21 FebShould Clarence Thomas be impeached?
66. 21 FebThis Is Excellent News For John McCain
67. 21 FebMegan McArdle Superstar
68. 20 FebFor Emma, Ten Years Ago
69. 20 FebTrump.dating is 100% trumptastic
70. 20 FebA man acquainted with sorrows
71. 20 FebThe Left Needs to Be Smarter, Part Who Even Knows
72. 20 FebToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
73. 20 FebToday in the New Gilded Age
74. 20 FebFormations in the SCS
75. 20 FebOur Cartoon President
76. 20 FebThe Smarm of the Contrarian
77. 20 FebThe Unwavering Principles of Mitt Romney, Man of Integritude (TM)
78. 20 FebA Political History of the Future: Black Panther
79. 20 FebAmerican Hippopotamus
80. 19 FebWhy Do Liberals Feel the Need to Rehabilitate Terrible Recent Republican Presidents?
81. 19 FebMass murder – A gut-wrenching tragedy or a welcome break from the daily grind?
82. 19 FebThe Affluent Society
83. 19 FebSlavery and the White House
84. 19 FebThe Upcoming Public Sector Apocalypse
85. 19 FebHousing Discrimination and the American Wealth Gap
86. 19 FebThe Second Amendment Is Not Why The U.S. Doesn’t Have Good Gun Control Policy
87. 19 FebBlack Panther and Black Children
88. 19 FebMonday Linkage
89. 19 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 207
90. 19 FebBlack Panther Open Thread
91. 18 FebSpeaking of the NYT’s Target Audience
92. 18 FebThe New York Times Has Reached Its Target Audience
93. 18 FebRanking the Post-War Presidents
94. 18 FebOh. Goody.
95. 18 FebTrump melting down on Twitter
96. 18 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 206
97. 18 FebMedia Fails: Not Just For Politics Anymore!
98. 18 FebMusic Notes
99. 17 FebThe Russian Hacks Were Effective Because of Terrible Reporting Practices
100. 17 FebToday in the Sixth Extinction
101. 17 FebGun Control as a Political Issue
102. 17 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 205
103. 17 FebTrump Absolutely Can Be Blackmailed
104. 16 FebUpper-Class Tax Cuts and Neoconfederate Judges Over Country
105. 16 FebGenízaros
106. 16 FebA Conspiracy to Defraud
107. 16 FebToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
108. 16 FebThe Ongoing GOP War on the 17th Amendment
109. 16 FebSpecial Snowflake Needs Taxpayer-Funded Safe Space
110. 16 FebBlack History Month Reads
111. 16 FebA Word From James Bennet
112. 16 FebWhy Do All These Trump Associates Keep Making Plea Arrangements?
113. 15 FebParty of Trump Fails to Protect DREAMers
114. 15 FebWhere was he radicalized?
115. 15 Feb“Draping a philosopher’s toga around a troll”
116. 15 FebYou Got Your Peanut Sauce in My Everything
117. 15 FebThis Day in Labor History: February 15, 1988
118. 15 FebMass shootings as media events
119. 15 FebMedia’s Obsessive 2016 Focus on Security of Classified Materials Pays Immediate Dividends
120. 15 Feb17 killed in Florida high school shooting
121. 14 FebNobody Could Have Seen THIS Coming
122. 14 FebIs Obama covered in sperm in his National Portrait Gallery painting?
123. 14 FebMy Outrage Addiction
124. 14 Feb“Yeah. I wouldn’t worry about it though, it’s not a big college town.”
125. 14 FebTrump’s personal lawyer randomly gave a porn star who said she had an affair with Trump an $130,000 gift right before the election
126. 14 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 204
127. 14 FebDemocracy Coming To Pennsylvania?
128. 14 FebThe Sky, It Continues to Fall
129. 13 FebThe Perfect Hiatt Hire
130. 13 FebBecause what poor people really can’t afford is dignity
131. 13 FebCollege sports, higher ed, and money madness in the new gilded age
132. 13 FebNational Parks and Development
133. 13 FebTeaching Evaluations
134. 13 FebIf There’s One Thing We Know from Decades of the War on Drugs, It’s That Turning Drug Users Into Criminals Totally Works
135. 13 FebLook at What They Do, Not What They Say
136. 13 FebCould Someone Check on Matt Walsh?
137. 13 FebThe Structural Background of the 2018 Midterms
138. 13 FebToday In Donald Trump’s Populist War On the Neoliberal Order
139. 13 FebToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
140. 12 FebNative Americans and Housing
141. 12 FebAutomation Sneaking Into Political Discourse
142. 12 FebLaw Enforcement as White Inheritance
143. 12 FebI hear he speaks eight languages
144. 12 FebHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Greatest Showman
145. 12 FebBabymen Who Insist Lady “Ghostbusters” is a Bad Movie are Ruining My Adulthood
146. 12 FebMonday Links!
147. 12 FebThe Election Of Donald Trump Was the End of Neoliberalism
148. 12 FebGreat Subtweets In History
149. 11 FebHow can Republicans stop losing seats in special elections?
150. 11 FebA Fresh Idea: Visiting the Provinces to Celebrate a Random Trump Supporter
151. 11 FebLazy Cookin’: Sweet Chile Hot Wings
152. 11 FebDonald Trump Opposes Due Process For Anyone Differently Situated From Himself
153. 11 FebToday in American Ethnic Cleansing, Part II
154. 10 FebShe got Stanards
155. 10 FebRecreating the Jim Crow Electorate in Arkansas
156. 10 FebI Laughed, I Cried, I Asked “WTF?”
157. 10 FebToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
158. 10 FebNYT Opinion: What We Need Is A Climate Change Troofer Who Will Write Lightly-Researched Columns Attacking Dylan Farrow
159. 10 FebThe Adult in the Room
160. 10 FebThe GOP has the BEST PEOPLE (Update – Will someone please think of the men who beat their wives?)
161. 10 Feb“He…says he is innocent.”
162. 10 FebCould a Shutdown Have Helped DREAMers?
163. 9 FebWinter Is Coming
164. 9 FebSome trashbeings will claim that there’s a woman to blame
165. 9 FebHow many more days until Dana Bash experiences another day on which Donald Trump became president?
166. 9 FebThey Knew. They Didn’t Care.
167. 9 FebThis is What a White Supremacist Presidency Looks Like
168. 9 FebGood Move
169. 9 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 203
170. 9 FebToday In Film Industry Assholes
171. 8 FebDeficit explodes, stock market crashes, Tea Party takes to the streets
172. 8 FebRepublicans in the White House shocked to find one of their number is as dishonorable as they are
173. 8 FebWhat If… Kim Had Won?
174. 8 FebThe Absurd Misogyny Of It All
175. 8 FebThe Jobless Future Sure Looks Great
176. 8 FebGood Ideas That Will Go Nowhere
177. 8 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 202
178. 8 FebThe Inept McCarthyite
179. 8 FebWhy Do All of These Abusive Misogynists Keep Ending Up Associated With Donald Trump?
180. 7 FebCMS Admin. Verma: Dear Leader wants to liberate poor people from the Democrat’s health care snare
181. 7 FebAre the Dems about to get rolled on DACA?
182. 7 FebThe Huge PBS Failure on The Gilded Age
183. 7 FebThe Sky Is Not Falling
184. 7 FebDisagreement is Not Silencing
185. 7 FebThe Republican’s new plan for Medicaid patients – Bootstrap or die
186. 7 FebIf Anything, Hillary Clinton Was Too Prepared
187. 7 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 201
188. 7 FebBut Will They Wear #MAGA Hats?
189. 7 FebJMcD Resigns As HC of the IC
190. 7 FebHillary Clinton Was, If Anything, Too Prepared
191. 6 FebStarman, Gilded Plutocracy edition
192. 6 FebSelf-paid family leave
193. 6 FebThe trouble with the stock market
194. 6 FebToday In the Arbitrary Abortion Obstacle Course
195. 6 FebAIP: How does it work?
196. 6 FebSecuritization and the Progressive Agenda
197. 6 FebLady Doritos
198. 6 Feb“Superheroes”
199. 6 FebWhy Conservatives Hate Higher Education
200. 6 FebYou Too Can Support the Internet’s Least Important Series
201. 6 FebSuper Bowl Aftermath 1: The Eagles
202. 6 FebSome derp called it treason
203. 6 FebPaul Simon is Homeward Bound
204. 5 FebHow to Think About Judicial Behavior
205. 5 FebThe limits of law as politics
206. 5 FebHow Is the New Crop of Republican Candidates Looking?
207. 5 FebThe Drum Major Instinct
208. 5 FebConsumer Protection in the Trump Era
209. 5 FebPrivatization Runs Aground in the U.K
210. 5 FebThe Idea of an Anti-Trump Conspiracy at the FBI is Utterly Insane
211. 5 FebWhen the US Does It, It’s Not *As* Illegal
212. 5 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 200
213. 5 FebIt’s Easier For Politicians to be Corrupt These Days
214. 5 FebSuper Bowl Postgame Thread
215. 5 FebSuper Bowl Second Half Open Thread
216. 4 FebSuper Bowl Open Thread: I Believe The Eagles Believe They Can Fly Edition
217. 4 FebToday in the Sixth Extinction
218. 4 FebHow the Supply Chain Debate Reflects A Pro-Corporate Mentality
219. 4 FebA Political History of the Future: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
220. 4 FebTrump considering asking Sessions to prosecute Mueller
221. 4 FebThe politics of transit: two interrelated problems
222. 4 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 199
223. 4 FebPretending to Care About Civil Liberties
224. 4 FebMusic Notes
225. 4 FebHikers, backpackers and campers, ignore the lies of Big Filtration!
226. 3 FebThe Cadaver Trade
227. 3 FebA Cascade of FAIL
228. 3 FebSupply Chains, Child Labor, and Accountability
229. 3 FebThe death of satire
230. 3 FebAmericansElectUnity’20!
231. 3 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 198
232. 3 FebOn Organizing Data
233. 3 FebRepublican Governance Is A Catastrophe
234. 2 FebSenate Democrats and Immigration
235. 2 FebThere Was Nothing In Devin Nunes’s Vault, But It Was All the DEEP STATE’S Fault
236. 2 Feb“Why Do You Hate America?”
237. 2 FebHow Can We Forget Terrible “Centrist” Anti-Abortion Rights Arguments If They Won’t Go Away?
238. 2 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 197
239. 2 FebPublications
240. 2 FebBREAKING: Evidence in Memo Outlining Insane Conspiracy Theory Less Than Compelling
241. 1 FebHis own private Idaho
242. 1 FebHippies Have a Lot to Answer For, Part the Infinity
243. 1 FebInteresting new legal theories from America’s favorite punching bag
244. 1 FebWhy We Need to Talk a Lot More about Treason in Defense of Slavery
245. 1 FebRising GOP congressional star brings open Holocaust denier to SOTU as guest
246. 1 FebThe Brutal Slaying of Parody [TW: Extremely Graphic]
247. 1 FebLGM Podcast: The Big Game
248. 1 FebThe New York Times Visits the Provinces
249. 1 FebNo Need to Panic. Yet.
250. 1 FebErik Visits an American Grave, Part 196
251. 1 FebA Hack In Full
252. 1 FebDialogue Is Not the Answer for Our Problems