Teachers in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and now Arizona are building on the actions by their West Virginia comrades and walking off the job to protest their terrible pay and benefits, but really are protestin
Voting for Republicans sure pays off for the Appalachian working class! A measure signed into law in Kentucky this past week would prevent federally-certified radiologists from judging X-rays in state
This is the grave of Theodore Roosevelt. OK, where to begin here. I could easily write several thousand words on Roosevelt without even having to think hard about it. So I am going just make 10 points
Redlining, the mid-twentieth century federal effort to determine home loan viability based upon the racial makeup of neighborhoods, both reflected long standing white supremacy and created new structu
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s 2015 book, The Mushroom at the End of the World, is simply one of the best academic works I have read in years. Tsing examines the matsutake mushroom–a prized food
The Democratic Party has quite a few rising stars in the Senate. One of them is Brian Schatz of Hawaii. He’s been tremendously impressive. Part of this is that he has boosted a lot of progressiv
It’s really shocking that ICE has gone full fascist shock troop with Donald Trump as president and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as Attorney General. Immigrants who accept almost any form of
Above: Elsie Parrish On March 29, 1937, the Supreme Court decided the case of West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish. This 5-4 decision upheld Washington’s minimum wage law for women as constitutio