Top Reads from the Fiscal Times

The Perverted, Powerful Logic Behind ISIS's Burned Pilot “We will fill the sea with blood,” the jihadists chanted as the Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbah was being burned alive in a cage. In Raqqa, the defacto capital of ISIS in Syria, the crowds cheered as the pilot’s death was shown on big TV… ‘If We Can’t Reach a Peace Accord, It’s Called War’ – Hollande on Ukraine Whether by accident or design, the United States and its partners in Europe have entered a sort of good-cop-bad-cop routine in their dealings with Russian President Vladimir… Is the Unemployment Rate of 5.7 Percent Just a ‘Big Lie’? The U.S. job market is, to use a technical term, really hot. January saw non-farm payrolls jump by a better-than-expected 257,000, and data revisions lifted the totals for… Why Americans Shrug Off Income Inequality Americans are an optimistic bunch, and the notion of America as the land of opportunity remains a powerful one in the public’s mind. A new study about opinions of economic… John Oliver’s HBO Show Returns to Take Us Down the Rabbit Hole The past two years have been very good to John Oliver. Following an excellent spell behind Jon Stewart’s desk in the summer of 2013, Oliver was presented with the…