The World's Worst Delberative Body, everyone: The Senate’s effort to restore long-term unemployment insurance benefits for 1.3 million Americans sputtered Tuesday amid bitter procedural disagreements. Negotiators from both sides of the aisle had been working to get a deal to extend the jobless aid that expired...
I’ve been looking forward to IFC’s “The Spoils of Babylon” ever since I saw previews for it and had no idea what the hell I was looking at. Now that.
On the night of January 15, 1915, the IWW writer and propagandist Ralph Chaplin wrote the song "Solidarity Forever." The song is emblematic of Wobbly culture. If there's one thing.
It should very much go without saying that the chants of Yale frat boys do not constitute sound principles of jurisprudence: Last week, a Swedish judge ruled that a man who proceeded to have sexual intercourse with a woman who was screaming "NO" so loudly that...
Whatever its successes and failures in terms of achieving policy goals, the modern American conservative movement is extraordinarily good at the closely related goals of self-dealing and separating rubes from.
Back when I had my own blog, I put up a historical image of the day. It was really just for me to slowly build a bank of images for.
How's that Republican outreach to racial minorities going these days? North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Greg Brannon has an interesting argument for eliminating food stamps: "slavery." In a videotaped interview with the North Carolina Tea Party in October, Brannon, a Rand Paul-endorsed doctor who is top...
I think there’s lots to find puke-inducing about the “do what you love” mantra. For starters, it’s probably been emblazoned on a pillow, which automatically makes it an incredibly obnoxious.
As I've been saying from the beginning, the obvious problem with the theory that Alex Rodriguez merited an extraordinary punishment is that the collective bargaining agreement specifies a penalty for.
John Boehner gives his official approval to a regulatory regime that allows companies to cut off the water supply for 300,000 people. More on the lax regulations of West Virginia that lead to worker deaths, pollution, and toxicity. In other words, freedom.
Today in the annals of the World's Worst Deliberative Body, we have the case of Robert Pastor. Pastor, who died the other day, was something of a wunderkind in the.
On January 14, 1888, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, 2000-1887 was published. One of the two most influential books in American labor history (with The Jungle as the other), Bellamy's treatise.