I’m not sure if this is just serendipity at work, but just after I wrote my piece...
Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
I have the unfortunate tendency to sometimes listen to rightwing radio while I drive. On morning news...
So, it’s interesting to me that so many libertarian-minded people, when they look at beer sales in...
Photo via Matt Welch. Apparently this happened during a commercial break after a heated exchange between the...
Ladies and gentlemen, the next Republican nominee for President of the United States of America! I can’t...
I only caught the end of the debate, but that was enough. It was enough to remind...
Tom Philpott observes that not all alcohol regulations need necessarily be a bad thing: It’s true that...
I read Michael Lofgren’s excellent piece on the many failings of the Republican Party over the long...
“Neither Governor Perry nor the bulk of Texas’ citizens may be interested in climate change, but climate...
I’m going to have more to say about this, but for now anyone who has read the...
It’s worth reading Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery’s article at Mother Jones on the ‘great speed-up’. The looming possibility of a double-dip recession notwithstanding, the...
Tom Van Dyke will be blogging with Tim Kowal at League sub-blog Notes from Babel. Please welcome...
Me: Not to sound like too much of an optimist – because resource depletion does keep me...
Kevin Drum wants a $1 trillion infrastructure investment to kick-start the economy. I think that even if...
Matt Yglesias points out once again that since we can borrow money at basically negative real interest...
David Roberts has an excellent conversation with…well he’s got voices in his head (Smith and Daly) having...
‘Shampoo’ by Elvis Perkins It’s not exactly Bach or whatever, but damn I love the music being...
Conor Friedersdorf posts this video of radical conservative Bryan Fischer: Conor writes: In the clip above, Bryan...
Despite what many GOP contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination say, the Earth really is heating up,...
So I support unions, even government unions, because in the system we have there is no reason...