The Slack Wire

A friend writes: Let's suppose that the United States could get a Universal Basic Income, but it had to trade a bunch of stuff for it....

Via Scott McLemee and Corey Robin, I learn that Lawrence & Wishart, the publishers of the collected works of Marx and Engels, have iss...

According to the local student paper , my current employer is having a disagreement with some of its workers (pictured above). I was not a...

Here's a heartening story from the old neighborhood: An 82-year-old great-grandmother cried tears of joy Friday as nearly 200 neighbo...

I don't have much to add to Mike Konczal's respectful but thorough rebuttal of the idea that the passage of health care reform mark...

Let’s be clear: Paul Krugman is a national treasure. On fiscal policy – and politics generally – he has been saying exactly what should be s...

My buddy Mark Engler wrote an interesting piece for the Dissent blog on why the left should oppose the Kagan nomination. Interesting, but n...