In a move pleasing to the AFL-CIO, the Obama Administration has taken what I think is an unprecedented step in suspending trade privileges for Bangladesh after the building collapse that killed 1100 garment workers this spring. The labor federation had pushed for such an action...
Month: June 2013
The North Carolina legislature for another in a string of extremist laws that tear the state's once fairly robust safety net apart in order to appease plutocrat Art Pope: Starting.
I don't think we can bury the coal industry yet, but this article really suggests an industry on its last legs. Or dying from black lung perhaps. ...In case you.
Josh Marshall’s reply to John Cassidy yesterday reminds me of his earlier piece on Snowden, which I meant to write about at the time. Both of Marshall’s posts are quite odd; they read, to me, as though they’re incomplete, with the paragraph that contains the...
Updated below Story here. Class size at VLS dropped from 200 to 170 in 2012, and VLS President Marc Mihaly expects it to take another 30-student plunge this year. The.
Language is always changing. I find the organic transformation of language quite fascinating, even when it leads to new forms of language that drive some people crazy, like using the.
I haven't commented yet on the fascinating Native American and parental rights case Erik mentions below in part because it's a genuinely difficult case and I have yet to reach any firm conclusions about it. But there is one thing I'd like to highlight. While...
In our stories about racial oppression in the United States, Native Americans aren't forgotten, but the legal details of how the government have denied Native American rights usually are ignored..
In my previous post on "In Care Of," I defined an "Oh Really" sequence as as structure of escalating exchanges that requires no dialogue to be understood. What I didn't.
The Family Research Council has called for a day of action on June 30 against same-sex marriage. They designed a really great logo for it. These people are so ready to come out of the closet, they can't help themselves. ....Once again, it's worth noting...
While I'm glad that Senate Democrats are fighting for a better bill that would lower student loan interest rates, Obama really left them hanging out to dry after proposing tying.
Above: person too dumb to win nomination of party that ran George W. Bush twice. Shorter Verbatim Rick Perry: In fact, even the woman who filibustered the Senate the other.