On August 9, 1910, the first patent was issued for the electric washing machine. I am going to use this seemingly random event as a jumping off point to explore one of the most forgotten labor sectors in American history—unpaid domestic labor in the home....
Month: August 2013
As you probably heard, Karen Black died. A key actress to so many major films of the 70s, she succumbed to cancer. She could have had a dignified end of.
One of the unsung legends of country music. More known as a producer than performer or songwriter, but he was everywhere in country music for 50 years. "Let's All Help.
Like Erik's, my initial reaction to Dylan's Matthews's assertion that conservative think tanks are where people who really care about mass unemployment can be found was to be as incredulous as Matthews's post is credulous. Still, it's true that not all of these ideas are...
But that's about the only item worth defending in Anil Dash's anti-shushing manifesto. To Matt Zoller Seitz's excellent demolition of Dash's argument I will add this: the idea that behaving.
I was asked to provide a write-up of a panel at the Labor and Working Class History Association meeting on the Chicago Teachers Union struggle. It gave me an opportunity.
Good on Slate for joining other news organizations in refusing to use the given name of the Washington football club. I do disagree with David Plotz about what he calls the subtle case that "Redskins" was always racist. Just because Native Americans were seen as...
Forget it Jake -- it's Ohio. . . . I'm a bit surprised that some posters are taking the view that Tressel's willingness to flout NCAA rules (he was involved.
Because it's about time for another Doctor Who post, here's England reminding Matt Smith that he's going to be miserable when she's gone and we all die alone. The caption.
I'm not sure whether to say that Lawrence O'Donnell having a prime time talk show is inexplicable, or whether it's all too explicable.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the WonkBlog is promoting conservative economists that want to allow employers to pay less than the minimum wage. [SL] I suppose considering Obama's.
As Andrew Cohen notes, Scalia's recent dissent in the California prison overcrowding case is classic Scalia. And, by this, I mean it's an opinion with a lot of showy phrases.