I still maintain with as much vigor as I did in 2016 that part of the reason Trump won is that white working class people saw in him someone who might fight for their dying industrial jobs, or at least represented their anger that those...
Author: Erik Loomis
Are you aware that the Democratic Party is in fact in disarray because the online convention went so smoothly and didn't allow Beltway reporters to file their usual stories? The.
When we talk about organized labor in this country, to the extent that we even do, we so often just stereotype the building trades as filled with conservatives. Maybe we.
The Trump NLRB is so, so special. In a series of five memos to their regional directors the NLRB instructed them to dismiss various cases regarding COVID-19 related charges against employers. The board concluded that an employer is not obligated to engage in midterm bargaining...
I've been rereading N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, a fantastic novel about a Jemez man dealing with life in postwar America. It made me wonder what historical visions.
We started the day with Poe, let's end the day the same, with this wild 1928 version of The Fall of the House of Usher, from a live performance in.
High Country News explores how western land grant institutions of higher education continue to make money to this day on land stolen from Native people. The Morrill Act of 1862, which established the land-grant university system to spread public education across the country, bestowed 90,000...
Glenn Greenwald's pathological hatred of the Democratic Party has now led him to defend Aaron Coleman, the 19 year old kid running for the Kansas legislature who....has a nasty history.
This is a bizarre story about why Biden won the nomination. But he never wavered from his central message: that President Trump was a danger to American values, while he.
This is the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. Born in 1809 in Boston, Poe was raised by actors. But his father abandoned the family when the boy was 10 and his mother died a year later of tuberculosis. He was adopted by John Allan, a...
This little 3 minute cartoon from 1916 is a harsh look at poverty in the early twentieth century, focusing on a guy so hungry that he tries to get in.
A new war on junk food has been roiling Mexico in the last couple of weeks. As more states propose or approve bans on junk food sales to minors, Mexico.