I am deeply honored to learn that my This Day in Labor History series has won this year’s History News Network Cliopatria Award for “Best Series of Posts.” According to HNN: In “This Day in Labor History” Erik Loomis of Lawyers, Guns & Money documents significant moments in labor and working class history, moving back […]
Year: 2012
The problem isn’t that he’s uniquely bad. The problem is that for a Republican he’s pretty typical; he’s just blunter about the real goals of the anti-choice lobby.
Barack Obama has indeed been unduly timid when it comes to dealing with constitutional envelope-pushing by congressional Republicans, with the capitulation over the debt ceiling being the most recent
As those of you on Facebook already know, I’m in a situation similar to the Great Library Entanglement of October 2007. Point being, a number of you have written asking why I haven’t been blogging more frequently, and the short answer is that I haven’t really had a computer for the past two months. I’ve got […]
it turns out he’s somewhat opposed, if we can interpret “social programs led to the collapse of the British Empire” and “the British National Healthcare system is a devastating
David Brooks has an argument that the co-winner of yesterday’s caucuses is a different type of conservatism. Unlike that upper-class swell Mitt Romney, you see, Santorum offers a frothy agenda d
Doyle is very good on the Dowdesque classism inherent in the much-discussed Kate Bolick Atlantic cover story.
A very nice Washington Post write-up on the great Local Roots, the farmers’ co-op in Wooster, Ohio. I taught at the College of Wooster last year and so spent a good bit of money at this place. I
I know we all enjoyed last night’s clown show. But let’s remember that this is a mere midway entertainment compared to the world’s big story: climate change. Maybe the one and only s
This week’s Over the Horizon column suggests that the Russian arms industry is in for some long term trouble: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s military-industrial complex sustained the massive Soviet military institution, which regularly gobbled up 15-25 percent of the nation’s GDP. In an odd and unexpected twist to the end of the […]
As the procession of people on book tours and social conservative vanity candidates to match or exceed Romney’s popularity shows, the GOP nomination was Rick Perry’s to lose. And, boy, did
With the vast majority of the counties reporting, and all the major population centers in Iowa at 98% or more, it looks like Iowa is done for 2012. Barring dramatic changes in Manona County at only