Head, meet desk: Several construction labor unions have decided to lend their support to the Keystone XL. Though critics charge that the pipeline will lead to a drastic increase in carbon emissions, the unions, including Laborers International Union and the International Union of Operating Engineers,...
Author: Erik Loomis
It isn't dead horse blogging (and don't worry yourselves, I still have a good number of dead horses to show you), but this essay on the forgotten history of cows.
The UAW has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board over the interference of Tennessee politicians in the union election, claiming intimidation and asking that the results be.
Building on the model of professional sports, where immensely profitable owners squeeze the wages, reduce the benefits, and undermine the pensions of everyday workers because they can, the Pac-12, flush with cash from the Pac-12 Networks, refuses to provide health insurance or retirement benefits for...
Once again, figure skating is a terrible sport.
I highly recommend Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price's report on growing income inequality by state since 1979. Some of their findings from the executive summary (you can download the PDF.
If you are like me, you know basically nothing about Ukraine and the protests going on there. This was tremendously useful. In part: More subtly, what this campaign does is attempt to reduce the social tensions in a complex country to a battle of symbols...
19th century tool of Russian authoritarianism, meet 21st century Russian anarchist performance art collective: Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the group tried.
David Cameron: David Cameron says he is giving unemployed Britons “new hope and responsibility” by cutting their benefit payments and claims his welfare reforms are part of a “moral mission”.
The geologically stable state of Oklahoma has experienced over 500 measurable earthquakes in 2014, far and away already a record for the state and it is February. Why? Fracking, duh. Scientists have drawn links between earthquakes and wastewater injection wells used for oil and gas...
The University of Illinois-Chicago faculty have gone on strike in protest of the corporatization of the university that threatens what faculty do--our ability to teach and research, the stability of.
Horse overcome by heat, New York City, 1910.