Ben Casselman usefully tries to figure out just how many people are trying to survive and support themselves on less than President Obama's proposed $10.10 minimum wage. While solid numbers are hard to nail down, it's certainly not a bunch of teenagers working part time jobs...
Jeff Wise argues that theory on Flight 370 Paul discussed earlier today is probably wrong: Goodfellow’s account is emotionally compelling, and it is based on some of the most important.
I'm generally skeptical of tax credits to businesses and I'd like to see them all eliminated were the government and everyday citizens to be empowered to fill in the gaps.
“Helping the Poor–Gratuitous Distribution of Coal by the City–Cherry Street,” New York City, 1877 Konczal's essay on the voluntarism fantasy of conservatives who argue that private charity used to operate as a functional charity distributor before the big bad state destroyed individualism is pretty definitive. Konczal...
Given the continuing absence of any evidence for more esoteric/sinister theories 11 days after the disappearance of FL370, this account seems increasingly plausible: The left turn is the key here..
Timothy Noah has a good run-down of wage theft in fast food and the role franchising plays in it: What’s unusual here aren’t the claims of labor law violations, which.
Paul Ryan, unfortunately the latest Irish-American politician to forget the roots of his people and become a right-winger, has had a very racist week. Blaming black people for inner-city conditions is another in a long history of rich people blaming the poor for their own poverty....
Shorter Bill Kristol: H/t Matt Duss.
More on the Mistral question at The Diplomat: Over the next two years, the Russian Pacific Fleet is expected to receive two new Mistral class amphibious assault ships, fresh from French.
On March 18, 1970, postal workers around the nation went on strike. This illegal but pioneering strike of public sector workers not only forced the Nixon Administration to cave but ushered in a decade of working class restlessness against their own staid union officials and a...
An embarrassing and truly awful decision by the Seattle City Council. The problem is not, as the article seems to imply, "regulation" in the abstract--driving training, background checks, insurance rules,.
As I have said for many years now, agriculture is going to lose out in the water wars of the West. With continued urban growth and the political weight behind.