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Do Not Give a Dollar to the Opera
Hamilton Nolan · 09/09/13 09:50AMSyrian President Chats With Charlie Rose, Denies Everything
Lacey Donohue · 09/08/13 06:48PMHow Conservatives Pretend That Martin Luther King Was One of Them
Hamilton Nolan · 08/28/13 09:23AMRemember Martin Luther King, Jr., the oppressed Southern black man, the freedom fighter, the peacenik, who called for radical progressive civil rights and economic justice legislation, and who was smeared as a Communist? Today, pundits would like to remind you that he was, of course, a "conservative."
Juan Williams Is Just a Grumpy Old Republican Now
Hamilton Nolan · 08/27/13 09:04AMRemember when Juan Williams was a respected NPR journalist? It seems so long ago. He said something dumb, got fired, got bitter, got picked up by Fox News, and now makes a living as a sort of reformed liberal talking clown, paid to confirm the right wing's prejudices. Today: Juan Williams doesn't like that rapping music, either!
Americans of All Races Agree: We Are Racist
Hamilton Nolan · 08/23/13 09:08AMTime to Bring Bankruptcy Back for Student Loan Debt
Hamilton Nolan · 08/21/13 12:02PMThanks to some misguided moral philosophy and some excellent lobbying work, it is now almost impossible to discharge your student loans in bankruptcy. They haunt you forever, like the souls of those you've killed. As our national student loan debt balloons further into crisis territory, it become ever clearer that we need to change that rule.
Get Ready for More Blackouts
Hamilton Nolan · 08/13/13 08:57AMFour in Ten White People Only Have White Friends
Hamilton Nolan · 08/08/13 12:48PMStudy: Military Suicides Not Correlated With Military Deployment
Hamilton Nolan · 08/07/13 09:35AMWhy Didn't the Boston Globe Sell to the Highest Bidder?
Hamilton Nolan · 08/05/13 03:40PMThis weekend, The New York Times Co. sold the Boston Globe to John W. Henry, the owner of the Boston Red Sox. Henry paid $70 million. (Or negative $40 million, by more realistic calculations.) Oddly, several other bidders made higher bids than Henry. Why did the NYT Co. leave that money on the table?
Afghanistan's College Students Are Just Like Ours: Dumb and Angry
Hamilton Nolan · 07/30/13 09:53AMWhat Is Life Like For an Amazon Worker?
Hamilton Nolan · 07/29/13 11:48AMNew York Times Can't Quite Bring Itself to Call Liar a Liar
Hamilton Nolan · 07/23/13 11:18AMThe Air Force Desperately Needs More Fighter Pilots
Hamilton Nolan · 07/22/13 08:38AMAt Wal-Mart, “How the Hell Is Anyone Supposed to Make a Living?”
Hamilton Nolan · 07/18/13 02:10PMThe FBI Has Found Scientific Errors in 27 Death Penalty Convictions
Hamilton Nolan · 07/18/13 09:11AMMitch Daniels, President of Purdue, Tried to Ban Howard Zinn's Books
Hamilton Nolan · 07/17/13 11:37AMBack-to-School Shopping Season Has Already Begun
Hamilton Nolan · 07/08/13 08:29AMIf the school bell has finally sounded for the final time and the kids are gleefully preparing for several long, hot months of family road trips and spilled frozen dairy dessert substances, it can only mean one thing: time to start your back-to-school shopping now. Now. There is no respite in this world of gloom.
The More Your Pension Fund Pays Wall Street, the Less You Get
Hamilton Nolan · 07/03/13 08:54AMThe highly paid money managers of Wall Street often point out that they're not just making money for themselves; they're helping to enrich the retirement funds of millions of state workers, just like you. False! A new study points out that the more Wall Street makes, the less your pension fund makes.