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• GOP's Minimum Wage "Hike" Slashes Worker Salaries

  August 2, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The GOP is waging war on the poor. It's minimum wage bill would actually slash the wages of workers in seven states by as much as $3 an hour. In California, Orego... | More »

• Raul Castro, "Stalinist Reptile"

  August 1, 8:47 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Marc Cooper, has a poetic post about the meaning of Castro's "monarchic" plan for succession. Go read the whole thing, especially Marc's tale of beating up R... | More »

• Best First Songs on First Albums: The Recap

  August 1, 7:14 PM ET

  Time to summarize our best first songs on first albums list. As many of you pointed out, we were going for best first songs on first albums, not first songs on any alb... | More »

• How (Not) to Protect the Environment

  August 1, 4:16 PM ET

  For the FBI, environmental activism — with its arson, vandalism and more — has become synonymous with "domestic terrorism." But in the forests of southern Oregon, ... | More »

• All the News that Fits...R.I.P Castro?, Blair in Cali and More

  August 1, 11:45 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Fidel Castro, undergoing surgery for intestinal bleeding, has temporarily ceded power to his brother Raul. Dancing in the streets in Miami's Little Havana. Ahno... | More »

• Letter: "Support Democratic Revolution in Iran"?

  August 1, 12:00 AM ET

  Check out the overheated opening of a letter in response to "The Next War" from Pentagon hawk Michael Ledeen: Jeez, I thought it was only coffee in that cup Jim Bamfor... | More »

• The Cynical Politics of the Minimum Wage

  July 31, 5:45 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  It's no surprise that the Republicans are playing poison-pill politics, passing an increase in the federal minimum wage but yoking it to a permanent repeal of the... | More »

• Birth Control: Plan B Goes Public?

  July 31, 2:53 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The FDA has announced that the socalled "morning after" pill, emergency contraception that has been held hostage by the pro-life right out of the misguided fear that i... | More »

• List of the Day: Best First Songs on First Albums

  July 31, 2:05 PM ET

  Another fabulously time-wasting exercise in rock geekiness: We've put together a totally unscientific, wholly off-the-top-of-our head list of the best first songs... | More »

• All the News that Fits... McCain, Qana, and Iranian Hero Hugo Chavez

  July 31, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  GOP Presidential frontrunner John McCain's 18-year-old son, Jimmy, has enlisted in the Marine Corps. Israel's indiscriminate bombing at Qana kills 27 chil... | More »

• Minimum-Wage Hike/Estate-Tax Cut Combo Bill Clears House

  July 29, 2:33 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Tom DeLay would be proud. | More »

• Double Albums That Could Be Single Discs, Part V: OutKast, "Speakerboxx/The Love Below"

  July 28, 11:59 AM ET

  All week we've been editing down double albums into killer single discs. Our last project: OutKast's 2003 disc Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. This last one re... | More »

• All the News That Fits... Clinton, Armitage and Coulter

  July 28, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Coulter: Clinton's "gay,"   Gore's a "fag" Dick Armitage, former Bush State Department No. 2 to Israel on airstrikes: "You're going to end up empowe... | More »

• Comment of the Day II: Gay Marriage and the Military

  July 27, 4:56 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  From reader'C-Dawg' responding to my post, The Idiocy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell' I'm gay and I'm in the military. I prefer to keep m... | More »