Percentage of Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2014 primary-campaign contributions that came from the United States : 90 That came from three U.S. families : 30 Year in which the first female U.S. senator took office : 1922 In…
Portion of the hundred best-paid U.S. CEOs who earn more annually than their companies pay in federal taxes : 1/3 Percentage of Americans and Chinese, respectively, who believe their government is “on…
[caption id="attachment_252977" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Untitled (Cowboy) (detail), a painting by Richard Prince, whose work was on view in October at Gagosian Gallery in New York City © The artist. Courtesy…
By Wendell Berry, from Our Only World, out this month from Counterpoint. Berry’s essay “Faustian Economics” appeared in the May 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
From a list of reasons given for missing work, collected by CareerBuilder in a survey completed by 2,303 hiring managers and human-resources professionals.
From accounts of threats made against employees of the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management since 2010, featured last October in High Country News. (See “The Great…
By Eliot Weinberger, from Little Star #6. Weinberger’s books include An Elemental Thing and Oranges & Peanuts for Sale. the creation On June 9, 1603, Samuel de Champlain attended an Algonquin…
On a single day in July of 1943, more than 500 Allied planes bombed Rome, killing 1,500 people. The city got off lightly compared with Naples, which was attacked 200…
From comments appended to a post made last November on OathKeepers.org, a “non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders.” The post sought volunteers to guard…
From a new translation of Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador, a novel by Horacio Castellanos Moya. Moya, a Salvadoran writer, is the author of many books, including Senselessness and…
From a complaint filed last October by Unilever, the manufacturer of the Best Foods and Hellmann’s brands of mayonnaise, against Hampton Creek, which produces a vegan condiment called Just Mayo.
By Saul Bellow, from a previously unpublished essay written in 1951 and included in There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction, edited by Benjamin Taylor and out…
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell It’s not hot out, it’s not cold. A shy, sharp sun overcomes the clouds, and the sky looks, at times, truly clean, like…