The need for clean energy is undeniable. But why is it that the people forced to sacrifice for all forms of energy are always the poorest members of society? What do we owe them? Why should we be allowed to do this over their consent? This...
The higher education system is so broken. Between skyrocketing tuition and fees leading to massive student debt, a lack of state funding, the proletarianization of faculty including the rise of.
Our Silicon Valley techbros continue to pay so many dividends, if you are a shareholder at least. Otherwise, they see you as a mark for DISRUPTION!!! I was not aware.
The entire neoliberal transformation of the world has been based upon employers hating their own workers and taking back power from them. Yesterday's labor history post on Carl Icahn and the 1986 TVA flight attendant strike is a prime early example of how that played out....
Trump putting his idiot son-in-law in charge of policy in the Middle East seemed like a great idea, what went wrong? “We are witnessing the last vestiges of what has.
This is the grave of Walt Whitman. Born in 1819 in West Hills, New York, Whitman grew up as part of a large, pretty poor family. He did remember being.
Jimmy Carter's post-presidency has been admirable. His presidency, on the other hand, was pretty much an unmitigated disaster, until literally his last days in office: No one from the government notified Barbara Winter about the pardon. Not the White House, not the Justice Department’s Office of...
https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1394344671761993731 https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1394344672953208832 https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1394347960171843584 A poem for Stephen Breyer: The Emperor of Ice-Cream BY WALLACE STEVENS Call the roller of big cigars,The muscular one, and bid him whipIn kitchen cups concupiscent curds.Let the wenches dawdle in such dressAs.
President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett stand on the Blue Room Balcony after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional Oath to her on the South Lawn of.
The Supreme Court agreed today to hear a Mississippi case that provides an ideal venue for striking down Roe v. Wade. Gaming this out is pretty straightforward: Thomas, Alito, and ACB will certainly vote to overturn Roe, and I doubt that any of them will sign...
There was a very long time when I did not watch the NBA. The early 90s Pistons teams brought in a brutality to the game that was hard to watch..
Republican governance--very serious actions taken by very serious people. Just south of Oil City, where Louisiana representative Danny McCormick is from, is the predominantly Black city of Shreveport. Residents there.