A month ago I told you we’d hired Nona Willis Aronowitz to develop and edit a new section of TPM that we’re debuting in early January. It will be a cutting and incisive look at contemporary American culture, from race and work to entertainment and sex and family. In many ways it’s our biggest new venture at TPM in almost a decade. Starting this week and for the rest of the month we’re previewing the new project with a series of articles like the one we published yesterday. It’s a report on a women who was drugged and raped at a nude gay bar in New Orleans and how that crime has put New Orleans unique transgressive, bohemian subculture at war with the gentrifying newcomers who were attracted to just that subculture but now may be snuffing it out. If you haven’t already, definitely read it. And let me know your reaction both to the piece and to our new project.
Mike Ditka is “embarrassed” for the St Louis Rams who did the ‘hands up’ gesture.
I have a different question. Why aren’t the Rams still in LA?
The news that NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo will not be charged in the chokehold death of Eric Garner raises a slew of hot button issues about race, police brutality and more. But here’s a more mundane issue that isn’t the only issue and maybe not even the main one but is a pretty big one nonetheless: Why was Garner placed in a chokehold at all?
NYPD officer won’t be charged in the chokehold death of of Eric Garner.
One of the good things about people with borderline personalities is that even though they’re melodramatic, disruptive and inappropriate, the storms often end up passing pretty quickly. And along those lines, DC Republicans promised war on President Obama’s immigration executive order seems to be over.
We’re making a small change to the comments system later today. Details after the jump.
Kilgore to Dems Monday Morning Quarterbacking Obamacare: Get a life, folks. No one cares about your second-guessing.
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Meet the GOPers who think the GOP’s own Benghazi Report is a cover up.
Texas school board member says he’s sorry about offending people with his KKK “White Christmas” Facebook post.