I really don't think Lawrence Kotlikoff's idea to abolish all corporate income taxes is very good. In recent decades, American workers have suffered one body blow after another: the decline in manufacturing, foreign competition, outsourcing, the Great Recession and smart machines that replace people everywhere...
Author: Erik Loomis
Former NLRB member Craig Becker on an extremely disturbing decision by the 5th Circuit that effectively creates what he terms a "rightless workplace." Unnoticed except by employment lawyers, the United.
The Republican War on Women, Texas Edition, is having the precise effects Rick Perry and the gang hoped: In the Rio Grande Valley, Whole Woman’s Health CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller.
Although urban planners and environmentalists worry about these issues constantly, the blind faith by which most people involved with western development have assumed that water supplies would be found is amazing and disturbing. “There is no planning for a continuation of the drought we’ve had,”...
A sweet and uplifting message from the Cold War for your Sunday morning.
Perhaps the blackest mark on the Obama Administration has been the significantly harsher enforcement of American immigration law and the subsequent deportation of people, breaking up families. Twelve-year-old Jason Penate.
One of the laziest and morally bankrupt arguments people make about apparel workers and the working conditions is that they have governments and those governments need to step in if they want to improve wages. It's up to Bangladesh to decide factory conditions in Bangladesh;...
A rundown of animals officially declared extinct in 2013 and how they reached their end.
David Brooks is very concerned that adults might be smoking marijuana. Please make note of it. Also note that David Brooks claims to have smoked marijuana in the past. Judge.
On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island opened to process the millions of immigrants entering New York. Although certainly not only entry point for immigrants, it was the primary location where the immigrants needed to labor in American factories first experienced the country. Annie Moore, an...
Is there an industry as profoundly immoral as the apparel industry, where rich people in rich countries can create a production process where poor people in poor countries die and.
I'm not too big on the idea of hero, but there is something about the person persecuted for making others' lives better that gets to me. One of the greats.