This little piece on the United Students Against Sweatshops chapter at the University of Washington reminded of the importance of these student groups in fostering young activists against the systems of exploitation that dominate our world today. There are fewer groups like this on college...
Month: November 2014
My latest at the Diplomat: One way we know that we haven’t quite arrived at a new Cold War is that this sort of competition has not yet begun between.
They say that Orange County is home to the Happiest Place on Earth. For most people, that's Disneyland. For a cynical left-wing historian, it is the Nixon Library. When I.
If we are returning to the Gilded Age, we might as well be drinking their cocktails too, which have become all the rage. That's mostly a good thing as the austerity cocktails of the post-Prohibition Era have their place (I love a good martini of...
As you have may have heard, in September, the municipal police of a town in Guerrero, Mexico where the mayor and his wife had close ties with the cartels kidnapped.
It's not every day that the Roberts Court can be worse than even I expect, but here we are: the Court is about to rule that the Moops invaded Spain..
Ben Railton has an intriguing post about the influence of the 1994 elections on today. Outside of the obvious Gingrich and Contract with America stuff, he comes up with three: 1) Oliver North: True, former Reagan aide and Iran Contra figure North lost his Virginia...
I know my trust in the quality of the chicken I eat (not that I eat very much) is really reinforced by the United States now accepting Chinese imports of.
Technological advances are going to take away basically all of our jobs. This workless future should frighten all of us. It certainly worries Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla. To say.
...otherwise known as "Step #1" in the "How To Turn Humanity Into Pointless-Rave-Hallucinating Robot-Batteries" manual.
This was just brought to my attention. Not sure if serious, as the kids say on the Facebook: [I]t's a common journalistic practice to begin with an attention-getting anecdote that's.
I'm not completely convinced that this is central to the Starbucks recipe. A New York pastor has warned that Starbucks coffees are flavoured with the “semen of sodomites”. Coffee chain.