This Jacobin article about the Germanwings disaster makes an important point about the particular case: pilots are increasingly a contingent, vulnerable part of the labor force, and this context should be considered when trying to understand why a pilot would hide an illness that would...
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Richard Hofstadter was a very influential historian but he was also a tremendous snob whose personal proclivities would not make him look positively at a bunch of poor southern farmers..
Above: Terrible human being Michelle Rhee. California teachers' unions are under a new assault by teachers suing over unions using dues for political campaigns. Members can withdraw but they don't.
Rand Paul was named after Ayn Rand, [edit: it turns out this probably isn't true, but for the purposes of this post I'm going to treat it as "constructively" true, as lawyers say] which is arguably less creepy than naming your kid "Hubbard." Arguably. Negotiating...
So last night, there were two major local elections in the U.S. In the first case, Rahm Emmanuel, he who is friend to all humanity, won re-election against progressive challenger.
The post-racial society once again rears its glorious head, this time in beautiful Orange, Texas: A Confederate monument featuring 32 flags representing Civil War regiments is nearing completion in an.
As I mentioned earlier, my views on the general approach embodied in RFRAs to protecting religious freedom as a general matter are complicated and conflicted, but my views on the political dynamic at work in the current push for them are not. Another reminder, via...
Admittedly, the near-death experiences give me an anti-nut bias. But Helaine Olen's point here is crucial: Barely mentioned was the fact that the clueless wealthy might just as well go.
The Bush administration in one memo. The fact that it was sent to the the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth is a bonus. Ah, for the.
You may remember Carly Fiorina, who decided to follow up her track record of nearly ruining Hewlett-Packard with kicking some dirt on the grave of California's Republican Party by becoming a dismal candidate. She is, for some reason, pretending to run for president, but her...
Don't let the fact that nobody will resign or lose their jobs because of the disastrously botched UVA story make you think that you can get away with just anything:.
On April 7, 2000, the Workers' Rights Consortium formed at a New York conference. This apparel industry monitoring organization developed in response to the anti-sweatshop movement of the 1990s and.