Obviously I need to change the way I teach my Civil War course. Since Jim DeMint has the ear of God, we know his view of history is also correct. DeMint: This progressive, the whole idea of being progressive is to progress away from those...
Author: Erik Loomis
Sadly today, as you have probably heard, a high school kid went ballistic with a knife in a Pennsylvania high school. Gun nuts are joyous--guns don't kill people, people kill.
Glad to see Maryland following Connecticut in creating a $10.10 minimum wage. That's still too low but it's a nice jump. It also continues to build a real red state-blue.
Today is Equal Pay Day. Pay equality has still never been achieved in this country. Some facts, thanks to the National Women's Law Center: On average, women are paid only 77 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts.For women of color, the gap...
So Ezra Klein's big lead-off article at Vox was, well, strange. Not that I disagree with all of it, although there is way too much both sides do it in.
Not at all surprising that employee wellness program shifts responsibility for unhealthy workplaces off of the employer and onto the employee: “Many of the individual behaviors you are focusing on.
If there's one thing we know to be true about Republicans, it's that they are never hypocritical on sexual issues. They always live up to their Christian faith and they value their own marriages just as much as they value pressing their views on marriage...
Once again, capital mobility is the biggest threat to modern labor.* Companies already outsourced much work from the United States, contributing to the decline of unions, the split between labor.
Reihan Salam provides of somewhat less than compelling defense of why he is still a neo-con and why America needs his point of view. He fully admits that Iraq was.
Well, maybe not. But anyway, this is pretty gross: Far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen said on Friday it would prevent schools from offering special lunches to Muslim pupils in the 11 towns it won in local elections, saying such arrangements were contrary to...
In 1969, the Ad Council provided a very important message about venereal disease with a tune as catchy as the clap. Remember friends, VD is for everybody.
Poor Natchez. It turns out that people in 2014 may not be so interested in Confederate nostalgia tourism. It has no idea what to do, like you Thinner I used.