Apparel workers in Bangladesh are on strike and even burning their factories over their bosses refusal to grant a minimum wage of $100 a month. Although the linked article barely mentions the Rana Plaza factory collapse last spring, the resistance of the apparel corporations, particularly...
Month: September 2013
The fruit of...angry criticism! Shorter Verbatim AIG CEO Robert Benmosche: The uproar over bonuses "was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitchforks and their.
It'd be nice if FIFA had the least interest in human rights or labor rights when it made the choice for where to place the World Cup. Given the gargantuan.
Roy is more uncharitable than I am in regards to Jonah's latest. What's his latest? It's a florid, almost stream-of-conscious ode of Noonan-at-her-drunkest proportions to the much-lauded "Breaking Bad." It takes five pages to get around to the point that liberals are bad, but before...
The Republican campaign to persuade you not to get health insurance because they're opposed in principle to the non-affluent having access to decent health care is an immoral crusade with.
Hugo motherfucking Schwyzer.* Because as we all know, at any given point in time, there are only seven people who know how to type words on the Internet. It'd be.
A correspondent asked me a good question that I'd figure I'd throw open to the hivemind. With the exceptions of Michael McConnell and Charles Fried (and the latter, as a Harlan disciple who was also critical of the constitutional arguments against the PPACA, barely counts...
In yet another example of why the enormous differences between the two parties matter, we have U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes. Appointed by Reagan, Hughes is an open racist and.
Responding to a House Republican's forthcoming fake plan to replace the ACA, which he asserts will prevent discrimination against patients with pre-existing conditions without a mandate, Yglesias notes the obvious:.
How bad is the long-term drought in the West? The enormous rains of last week in Colorado helped a lot locally, barely put a dent in the larger indicators. If you don’t believe the drought monitor, take a look at Lake Powell, a good barometer...
Who could have guessed that a bunch of Occupy anarchists who don't trust government or institutions or systems of real accountability would prove a complete disaster with money? Oh right,.
We need more major political leaders who did solidarity work in Nicaragua for the Sandinistas.