The North Carolina legislature for another in a string of extremist laws that tear the state's once fairly robust safety net apart in order to appease plutocrat Art Pope: Starting next week, North Carolina—which has the fifth highest jobless rate in the country—will become the...
Author: Erik Loomis
I don't think we can bury the coal industry yet, but this article really suggests an industry on its last legs. Or dying from black lung perhaps. ...In case you.
Language is always changing. I find the organic transformation of language quite fascinating, even when it leads to new forms of language that drive some people crazy, like using the.
In our stories about racial oppression in the United States, Native Americans aren't forgotten, but the legal details of how the government have denied Native American rights usually are ignored. At least two possible reasons for this. First, unless you are from or live in...
The Family Research Council has called for a day of action on June 30 against same-sex marriage. They designed a really great logo for it. These people are so ready.
While I'm glad that Senate Democrats are fighting for a better bill that would lower student loan interest rates, Obama really left them hanging out to dry after proposing tying.
This is even stupider than the usual Republican paranoia. Evidently, Obama is trying to destroy the NFL--by planning to run ads during NFL games this fall explaining the details of the health care bill as it goes into effect. It’s just one scandal after another...
Jeebus. Jeff Olson, the 40-year-old man who is being prosecuted for scrawling anti-megabank messages on sidewalks in water-soluble chalk last year now faces a 13-year jail sentence. A judge has.
1. You like Canadian tar sands? Then you'll love domestic Utah tar sands, as Tara Lohan reports! 2. The EPA dropping a fracking study linking the practice to contaminated groundwater.
Forbes is a terrible magazine in general, but now that it is reviving the idea that the tariff was the real reason for the Civil War, it's adding bad history to its usual bad economics and bad politics. This David John Marotta column is really...
The historian of gay America, George Chauncey, with an excellent essay on the history behind the move toward gay marriage. In part: The lesbian and gay liberation movements of the.
Good that John McCain is so giddy about creating what he calls the most militarized border since the Berlin Wall with the immigration bill. I mean, that turned out pretty.