Jon Stewart Finds a Labor Dispute Americans Can Love
A certain labor dispute had Americans talking about the value of working men this week, Jon Stewart explained on The Daily Show last night.
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A certain labor dispute had Americans talking about the value of working men this week, Jon Stewart explained on The Daily Show last night.
Has your criticism with this election season's crop of infographics been that they have involved too few balloons? The Guardian has you covered.
When Paul Ryan bought his 10-year-old daughter hunting gear, some may have been shocked, but conservatives responded with pics-or-it-didn't-happen proof that they too have trained their daughters in the use of deadly weapons.
Harold Meyerson on upward redistribution, Cass. R. Sunstein on social dynamics and success, Dana Milbank on Hillary's "hit man," John Dickerson on how to choose a president, and Fran Tarkenton on NFL's fumbles.
Barack Obama must be the luckiest dude on the planet, Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show, because something is happening to Mitt Romney: He is getting dumber and dumber as the election goes on.
Maybe this is why the science industry is so male-dominated: Turns out science professors think more highly of male students.
What does manufacturing semiconductor testing devices have to do with the raging global popularity of "Gangnam Style"? We have no idea, but because D.I. Corp. chairman Park Won-ho is also the father of international horse-dancing king Psy, there has been a run on the stock.
Richard Cohen on Republican brain drain, David Brooks on the conservative mentality, Jeffrey Goldberg on "Muslim Rage," Michael Gerson on Republicans and Hispanics, and Naomi Wolf responds to critics.
Budget forecasting may be an imperfect art prone to lots of error, but when researchers looked at how forecasts and reality measured up, the errors ran mostly in one direction.
Robert J. Samuelson on empty American dreams, Jeff Rubin on oil price and the economy, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on Romney's tax plan, Thomas B. Edsall on Pennsylvania's swing state status, and Gordon G. Chang on China protests and the economy.
The old stereotype that men just don't get colors--it's fuchsia/sage/turquoise, not pink/green/blue!--apparently is based on an element of truth, according to this beautiful interactive of the way people name colors by DataPointed.net.
Peggy Noonan on Romney's "rolling calamity," David Brooks on nurturing grandiosity, Joel Kotkin on the last swing territory, Daniel W. Drezner on presidents and foreign affairs, and Pankaj Mishra on China-Japan relations.
Former President Bill Clinton joined Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night, and Stewart wanted to know about Clinton's DNC speech—"Could you tell that you were crushin' it as you were doing it?"
George F. Will on grown-up voters, Susan J. Lambert on labor laws, Ed Whitacre on GM, Nicole Gelinas on cronyism, and Linda Greenhouse on Constitution Day and Medicaid.
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart dug into how the "Romney campaign headquarters" at Fox has covered Mitt Romney's really bad 47-percent gaffe. Four words: "Chaos on Bulls**t Mountain."
Mitt Romney on dependency, Ross Douthat on Romney's gaffe and culture, David Rothkopf on the Israel myth, Andy Kessler on innovation economics, and Dana Milbank on the gaffe economy.
Mitt Romney might have made things too easy for Jon Stewart with the video where he says the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income tax will vote for Obama.
The promise of Facebook monetization lies in this chart by Nielsen: It shows people trust their friends above all other forms of advertising--by a lot.
Chinese protests against Japan over the island dispute have gotten ugly, and people—from small businesses to owners of Japanese cars—have been quick to display loyalty to China to protect themselves.
David Brooks on Romney's ignorance, Ramesh Ponnuru on GOP's misguided welfare worries, Shikha Dalmia on immigrants and the economy, Lawrence Summers on Britain's economy, and Thomas Sowell on the divisive tax rate.
When the U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was killed by protesters last week, conservative pundits took the opportunity to condemn Obama's attempts to encourage Muslim nations to embrace democratic change.
People are always talking about the lasting impact of investing in science, but how far does the government dollar really stretch? At least 15 years, according to this graph on astronomy grants by University of Washington grad student James R. A. Davenport.
Thomas B. Edsall on poverty and politics, Robert J. Samuelson on Bernanke's stimulus, Steven Rattner on Medicare costs, Simon Johnson on Deutsche Bank, and Sir Elton John on HIV-positive prisoners.
Smartphones like the new Apple iPhone 5 is all anyone can talk about, but dumbphones are still very much being used, sometimes as symbol of proud anti-consumerism as we've documented. Turns out, hipsters aside, the real people driving dumb phone sales are teenagers, according to this chart by comScore Data Mine.
Hooters, infamous home to big boobs and orange hot shorts, had a realization: Women are, like, half the population. And they eat too!
Alex Marshall on governments and markets, Prudence Bushnell on embassy security, Gordon Brown on growth in Europe, Charles Krauthammer on Obama and Iran, and Kate Tulenko on health workers.
Not everyone agrees with The Atlantic's Hanna Rosin's argument that the end of men is upon us. Family Inequality's Philip N. Cohen uses this chart to explain that the statistic saying many women are earning 51 percent or more of household income is not enough to explain the man-wife dynamic.
Gail Collins on Romney's reaction, Liz Cheney on Obama's foreign policy, Stephen Starr on the effect of rebel violence, George F. Will on the Fed's role, and Mark Hertsgaard on the farm bill.
While the DNC's TV ratings might not correlate to more votes for Obama, high viewership of either convention may correlate to higher voter turnout, according to this chart by Jordan Ragusa on the blog Rule 22.
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn on blacklisting terrorists, Harold Meyerson on Chicago power plays, Dana Milbank on Romney and Republicans, Paul Moreno on how public unions grew, and Richard Vedder on remedial college classes.
Illustrator Santiago Ortiz has created an interactive looking at the proportion of edits on individual Wikipedia articles made by men vs. women, and it turns out that the gender divide on "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" is even starker than we thought.
Kurt Eichenwald on what Bush knew, Ramesh Ponnuru on a difficult Romney presidency, Dennis Byrne on the teacher's strike, Matt Miller on wartime taxes, and David Brooks on why men fail.
A study last month found that pop music is sadder now more than ever, and it's because top 40 artists are opting for slower tempos and minor keys, as you can see from this new interactive by WNYC's John Keefe.
Charles Koch on corporate cronyism, John Fund on "none of the above," Gerard Lemos on anxiety in China, Nate Silver on polling without all the data, and Jim Cooper and Alan I. Leshner on the seriousness of science.
If a convention speaker can "win" Twitter, President Obama, whose speech last night spurred nearly 53,000 tweets per minute at one point, won by a long shot according to Twitter's blog.
Eugene Robinson on a successful Democratic National Convention, Jonathan Weil on who to blame for Facebook, Steven Greenhut on broken California, David W. Blight on the original voter I.D., and Gary Younge on Obama's walkthrough speech.
Netflix's brand has suffered since its price hike last summer. Turns out, more than a year later, DVD mail-in subscribers are slowly feeling better about the brand while streaming subscribers have been stagnant, according to this chart by brand perception company BrandIndex.
Nicholas D. Kristof with Obama's report card, Ezra Klein on the wonk-in-chief, Susan Antilla on trusting financial brokers, Linda Greenhouse on how we talk about abortion, and Steve Coll on rowdy Senate elections.
Jon Stewart knows the Democratic Party is super tolerant and sent his news team to the convention to find out just how inclusive and tolerant they really are last night on The Daily Show. The result: Democrats want to include everybody! Sort of.
American Pie star Jason Biggs tweeted some nasty things about Paul Ryan's wife Janna during the RNC. It did not go over well with conservative media site Twitchy.com, a Twitter curation site owned by pundit Michelle Malkin.
Iconic young adult novelist Judy Blume has been privately battling breast cancer, she wrote in her blog today.
Ezra Klein on the dumbest campaign question, Glenn Greenwald on CNN International, Steve A. Yetiv on domestic oil, Thomas Friedman on interdependent foreign policy, and Michael Kazin on presidents as family men.
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show team head to Charlotte for the DNC, and Stewart's appalled at the Democrat's poor response to the question "Are we better off?"
Ramesh Ponnuru on Obama's second term, Paul Thomas Chamberlin on talking to terrorists, Noam Scheiber on Obama and Wall Street, Matt Miller on the Rubio paradox, and Frank Bruni on the VP hex.
Do you feel like DVDs of theatrical releases are coming out earlier and earlier? You're not crazy. Wait time has decreased by nearly half, according to this chart by Reddit user steve599.
David Brooks on Republican individuality, Matt Miller on why Romney's ideas don't matter, Daniel Kanstroom on who is getting deported, Shmuley Boteach on circumcision, and William Pesek on China's economy.
Before the RNC aired Mitt Romney's biography video, Jon Stewart had an "advanced copy" that he showed last night on The Daily Show: "Mitt Romney: A Human Who Built That."
Iranian gamers may be freaking out about losing access to World of Warcraft, but apparently the game as a whole is falling from its nerdy perch, according to an interactive chart by Paid Content's Robert Andrews.
Jersey Shore is officially over. Not like no-longer-trendy over, but actually done. As Variety's Stuart Levine reports, MTV is ending the show after its sixth season, but that doesn't mean we'll lose out on shows that glorify embarrassing ethnic stereotypes.
Maureen Dowd on the pitiful Mitt Romney, Sally Kohn on Paul Ryan in three words, Bill Keller on Condoleezza Rice, Minxin Pei on American perception of China, and George F. Will on bluffing voters.
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