When you bought your house (this is strictly theoretical in my case since I doubt I will ever be able to buy a house), did your real estate agent tell you what toxic industries have historically been located near your new house? I'm guessing not....
Month: November 2015
I've spent much of the last two decades "doing" both conventional academic work and freelance journalism, and over that time I've come to appreciate that academia and journalism share some.
From: Skyhorse Publishing (because this shit seems to fall from above) Subject: Who Armed ISIS (the answer.
We can argue about the extent to which he's the con or the mark, but between his spectacular burn rate and Rick Perry-caliber campaign skills, we've passed peak Carson: Ted Cruz, buoyed by tea party support and the backing of much of the conservative wing...
Jason Van Dyke murdered Laquan McDonald more than a year ago, and a lot of people throughout the city of Chicago's power structure were well aware of that at the.
Kudos to Jim Dwyer for meeting the challenge of having a racist who is also a pathological liar attract support for a presidential bid: How alarmed were New Jersey officials.
U.S. Steel decided they couldn't wait until after Thanksgiving to lay off 2000 workers at its Granite City, Illinois facility. What a lovely holiday those unemployed workers will have. At the same time, U.S. Steel is demanding 20,000 union workers give away much of their...
In this kind of case, there can never really be justice, but the outcome is certainly preferable to the alternative: A white Chicago policeman who killed a black teenager was.
How Do You Create the Labor Force for the Maquiladoras and to Work in the Gardens of Rich Americans?
Above: Honduran sweatshop workers, i.e., people with histories One of the worst parts of the debate on the globalization of production is the discussion of workers. For promoters of uncontrolled.
Needs work unless the shooters made their escape on Hoverounds : Five protesters were shot late Monday night near the Black Lives Matter encampment at the Fourth Precinct police station in north Minneapolis, according to police. [...] One of the three men wore a...
Who knew that Turkey would become an important subject of debate this week?
You may recall Richard Dawkins from such original, deeply important thoughts as "Ahmed Mohamed did not invent the concept of timepieces." The world's most important public intellectual -- just ask.