Jed S. Rakoff Five years have passed since the onset of what is sometimes called the Great Recession. While the economy has slowly improved, there are still millions of Americans leading lives of quiet desperation: without jobs, without resources, without hope. Who was to blame? Was it simply a result of negligence, of the kind of inordinate risk-taking commonly called a “bubble,” of an imprudent but innocent failure to maintain adequate ...
IT IS a blow for advocates of gun restrictions and, perhaps, democracy across the country. Yesterday John Morse, president of the Colorado state Senate, and Angela Giron, another state senator, were recalled from office for backing a package of gun-control measures in February. The pair, both Democrats, are the first state legislators to lose their jobs in this way in Colorado's history. Across the country only 18 state legislators have ever been recalled. (The tool is ...
Via Facebook: One of the most shared photos of the past 24 hours purports to show the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt covered by snow, a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. But while it's true that it snowed in and around Cairo Friday for the first time in 112 years, the photo doesn't really document that event. What you see above is a 1:25 scale model of the Sphinx located in the Tobu World Square theme park in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. A 2010 photo of the same replica surrounded by ...
Jude Folly is an evolving act of becoming; a narrative salvaged from a pummeled psyche and body. His slowly unfolding talent gathers momentum as he explores the intersection of politics, art and the human condition in blog post, fiction & lyric.
