Emotional labor is one of the most useful ideas to come out of labor scholars in the last 25 years (it may have been articulated earlier, I'm not sure, but it's gone mainstream since 2010 or so). It does such a great job explaining the...
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Lyndon Baines Johnson at age 59 Today is an exciting day in the world of actuarial statistics, as the Social Security Administration just published actuarial tables for 2023. These are.
Back in 2022, a small group of workers under the name Amazon Labor Union won a union election in an Amazon facility in New York. This one small victory, which.
During the fundraiser many of you felt compelled to rise to the defense of Ulysses, my fat idiot cat. Here, you can see that he has dispatched Shadowfax and a noble Soldier of Gondor, and is now attempting to consume Gandalf. This is the level...
This is the grave of Nathaniel Goodwin. Born in 1857 in Boston, Goodwin was an actor who first shows up in the record in 1874, when he got a part.
Game 4 was.......something. That was just about the craziest thing I've ever seen. New York fans are flooding San Antonio for this game. They might be a majority of the.
It's probably worth noting before reading this piece that Switzerland enacted women's suffrage in....1971. About 9.1 million people live in Switzerland — approaching too many, for many Swiss people. On Sunday, the country will vote on whether to take measures to cap its growing population...
The single biggest political asset Trump brought with him into the 2024 election -- the heavily Mark Burnett-influenced idea that he was an effective steward of the economy -- is.
A no-good, very bad week for Donald Trump! It started with his rage-filled interview with Kristen Welker, when she pressed him for evidence of his claim that elections are rigged..
UFC Freedom 250 arena, Washington, DC Interesting conversation here (gf) about Donald Trump trying to meld his 80th birthday with America's 250th, by among other things holding a bunch of UFC fights on the White House lawn, as a sort of spectacle of hyper-masculinity. Siegel:...
This is the grave of William Rand. Born in 1828 in Quincy, Massachusetts, Rand grew up in a religious household. His father was a minister. He grew up in the.
A preview of something that will hopefully intensify on various fronts staring in January 2029: A judge has denied President Trump's request to pause a ruling ordering his name removed from the Kennedy.