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The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, so it unfortunately looks very American. (If "American" refers to the US alone.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_…

Yes, sports news is generally held up as the highest-quality news by media critics. They think it's maybe an outlet for people's intelligence, where very sophisticated analysis is …

There are people with far worse jobs (if they have jobs at all), but the solution certainly isn't to shut up. A better solution is to spend a little of your time educating yourself…

I enjoyed this essay, but the author makes unnecessary divisions. Many on the "extremes" have expressed all the positions he describes, to some extent. These aren't really incompat…

When reading comments on articles like this, I wonder if I'm in the minority, or whether people just don't want to get caught publicly supporting a social taboo in front of potenti…

On China, Martin Hart-Landsberg had a couple informative articles on Monthly Review. (I didn't know Lenovo came from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.) http://monthlyreview.org/1002…

I hope some teachers "cheated" on the tests for principled reasons, not just for personal reward, like this UMass teacher: http://books.google.com/books?id=x3ertj1IcaAC&lpg=PA62&#.…

The poster you're responding to is correct. Michael Arrington uses heavy rhetoric, so we should probably translate "handouts" to mean expensive economic intervention which benefits…

That comment uses an odd rhetorical technique -- the poster claims that the article uses "blatant doublespeak"... while ironically writing a long response claiming that he's refusi…

In response to your question, your post currently has 9 points, and virtually all it offers is an ad-hominem implication (people who are merely interested in this article aren't "c…

This essay from the right-wing thinktank Heritage Foundation is flawed. It attempts to argue that while food insecurity exists, it isn't a problem; those who suffer from it actuall…