Catherine Rampell is speaking smartly in her angry column on the systematic wage theft that goes on in fast food and other low wage industries: Take Ashley Cathey, 25, a six-year McDonald’s employee who participated in a national one-day strike last December. A couple of months...
Now that the plutocrats are creating a new bubble based upon exploiting renters, the price to rent has exploded, with renters spending 19% more of their income to put a.
I am so not surprised that self-proclaimed friend of labor Media Matters wants a union-free shop: Media Matters for America is apparently resisting an effort by Service Employees International Union.
Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, and other Nobel Peace Prize winners are right about Keystone. Former president Jimmy Carter has joined a group of Nobel laureates who oppose construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, warning President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry, “You stand on...
Shorter Lambert Strether: I'm baffled that anyone would think that reducing the number of uninsured, such as the net increase of 9.3 million with coverage, is an actual goal of.
Chinese workers making shoes for American manufacturers are on strike: More than 30,000 staff at the Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) factory in Dongguan city have been striking for several days.
Three years ago this week I published a piece in the New Republic, outlining the various ways in which the graduate employment rates law schools advertised were deeply misleading. At that time, only a handful of mostly elite schools published meaningful employment data: by contrast, the...
I love fashion, I love interior design. I gave up on fashion magazines years and years ago because I think women's magazines are pretty awful for women. But beyond that,.
It turns out that the quality of the air you breathe might be related to the color of your skin -- even after adjusting for income. Great job, air!
So said a Southern Baptist Convention newspaper on January 31, 1973, soon after Roe v. Wade was decided. Question: What is the Southern Baptist position on abortion? Answer: There is no official Southern Baptist position on abortion, or any other such question. Among 12 million Southern...
I display some frustration: As an educator, I can attest to some frustration in relating to students that the United States operates ten aircraft carriers, plus another nine ships that.
What are the best documentaries of all time? Sight and Sound is about to release a poll around this issue. Richard Brody has his choices, of which I've seen 2:.