Nick Baumann |
I cover national politics and civil liberties issues for the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones. I have also written for The Economist, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic, and Commonweal. Email me at nbaumann [at] motherjones [dot] com. |
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"[Detroit’s] per capita income, averaged over its 684,799 residents, is just $15,261 per year."
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Notes A Very Brief History of Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to QueensToday I learned that the end of trolley service in many major American cities was the result of a criminal conspiracy.
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"A more radical approach to powering trains is that proposed by Russian Railways, which says it is designing a nuclear-powered train in conjunction with Rosatom, the state nuclear giant."
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NotesNot enough people know this awesome Ghostbusters/Eminem mashup by Craig Godbold.
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Notes"[T]he bottom line here is that a small number of high-income individuals are going to pay more taxes on their investment income, while a large number of working class Americans are going to get free or discounted health insurance." -
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"75 percent of all tornadoes on Earth occur in North America."
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Notes Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: Original, unedited caption: Jun 15, 1976 - Plains, Georgia, U.S....
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Jun 15, 1976 - Plains, Georgia, U.S. President JIMMY CARTER takes a forceful swing during a softball game at his alma mater - Plains High School in Plains, Georgia. Catching is James Wooten of The New York Times and the ump is Ralph Nader dressed in a heavy wool…
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This is not a rendering. It is a launching pad in the New Mexico desert for rocket planes that will send you into space for $200,000. It opens later this year. (via The Era of Private Space Travel Is Just Beginning, in New York magazine.)
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Stunning black & white photo of the Capitol via Ghosts of DC
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Smeagol Sings “Empire State of Mind” (by Ijameswalters, via Huffington Post—kind of what the internet is for.
