There's no question that one lesson from the fertilizer explosion in West, Texas is that we need much harsher fines and criminal statutes against corporations when workers die, as well as the regulatory structure to prosecute the owners of these corporations. The latest AFL-CIO Death...
Author: Erik Loomis
Building off my Chinese Exclusion Act post from the other day, here is a good example of pure, unadulterated anti-Chinese racism, from the New York Times, August 26, 1885. In.
Oh for the love of all things holy. Of course it would be a self-proclaimed anarchist who developed the 3-D printed gun. Further context here.
Digby on the endless wrongness of those who project when Medicare will become insolvent.
This collection of cat images used during the suffrage movement is outstanding. Thanks to djw for sending this my way.
Jonathan Chait makes an interesting argument for Obama as "the environmental president," but I think it is the wrong question to ask. Chait's argument is that despite the failure of.
Remember the West, Texas factory explosion. It's been 2 weeks and the story has almost completely disappeared from the media while CNN continued its 24-hour coverage of the latest details in the Boston Marathon bombings at least until late last week. The lack of follow-up...
The title for greatest beard in American history goes to one Peter Cooper, 1876 Greenback Party candidate for president. I don't see how the competition for this title even comes.
I was on the Alternet Radio Hour with Joshua Holland on Saturday, talking Texas, Bangladesh, and my joyous past with right-wingers trying to get me fired. Turns out the more.
On May 6, 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act. Although not often seen by the general public as part of our labor history, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first legislative victory for organized labor in this country. It generated out...
I recently rewatched Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. I was confirmed in my opinion that this is the greatest American film about work and class. The early scenes in the factory.
For all the talk we've been giving the late great George Jones here, we shouldn't forget the nearly equally talented Tammy Wynette. I think overall Tammy's potential was not quite.