William Yeomans does a better than usual job of articulating the Mass murder or terrorism? debate. I’m not sure this is really a compliment. In an article written (I think) just a few hours befo
Matthew Barney has, if nothing else, achieved one of the highest pretension-to-achievement ratios in known human history. He has just issued River of Fundament, a six-hour movie…not exactly base
In the Progressive Era, the photographs of Lewis Hine brought the horrible conditions of child laborers in the United States into the sight of the middle class, helping to bring about the end of most
Jake Blumgart has an interesting piece on how Seattle has created its own labor office with more inspectors per capita than the Department of Labor or the state of Washington. Of course, that’s
If only we had had more upper-class tax cuts: Back in the 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney ran hard against the weak Obama economy and promised much better things if he got to take charge in 2013. Specifica
Attempting to put Trump’s ongoing lead in the polls in historical perspective, Julia Azari makes an important point: On a related note, the previous establishment-insurgent contests had a define
On December 4, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered federal troops to the gold mining town of Goldfield, Nevada to bust a strike of workers affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World an
I’ve been going back and forth a bit with Erica C Barnett on the subject of this post on facebook and twitter, so I figure I’ll gather my thoughts here. Barnett’s thinking through ho