There's been a lot of discussion about "saving" the labor movement in recent weeks. Two particular pieces to point out. First, Josh Eidelson hosted a forum at The Nation that included CWA President Larry Cohen, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, and a number of...
Author: Erik Loomis
Heisman winner Johnny Manziel's class schedule: Johnny Football still finds time to be a college student too, even though the Texas A&M star doesn't have to be on campus very.
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times continues his climate trolling, this time complaining about people just being so unreasonable about climate change: But on the Keystone XL pipeline –.
The Wind River Reservation in Wyoming has received a lot of attention lately because of its endemic poverty and high crime rates. It started with this Times article last year about a murder. As things often go, the Times became the trendsetter for a myriad...
Mary Sue McClurkin, a state rep from the fine state of Alabama: Alabama state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R) is pushing legislation that would impose restrictions on abortion clinics --.
When I think of Presidents' Day, the one thing that comes to mind is how stupid it is to blast the faces of presidents onto South Dakota mountains. I once.
I've long been skeptical of biofuels as a meaningful way out of our energy crisis, especially considering that turning corn into fuel causes a whole lot of environmental problems of its own. Another big problem with biofuels is turning much of the United States into...
Yale has a very exciting new deal with the Department of Defense: As early as this April, Yale plans to welcome a training center for interrogators to its campus. The.
As always, Roy Edroso ventures deep into crazyland to get the latest writings from rightbloggers. And they were very happy about Obama's proposed minimum wage hike, as you can imagine:.
The president of Emory University evidently lacks people to make sure he doesn't say insane, horrible things. During a Homecoming program in September, a panel of eminent law school alumni discussed the challenges of governing in a time of political polarization—a time, in other words,...
To build upon my piece on cod (was going to write "cod piece" but was like, wait that's something else) from last week, see this letter to the editor of.
As some of you know, I have a pretty complex and ambivalent view of the history of the Pacific Northwest, largely because I grew up in a timber-supported household when.