Laura Flanders nails much of the reason why Nicholas Kristof is so irritating: Kristof certainly dedicates plenty of words a year to the women at the bottom of the heap. But that's another part of my beef. A classic Kristof story portrays a former prostitute-turned-businesswoman...
Author: Erik Loomis
If you haven't read this piece on how the New Jersey Democratic Party's commitment to big money over popular support helped create the Chris Christie phenomenon that could have major.
A hearty Happy 100th Birthday to the graduated income tax, one of the greatest laws in American history. The 16th Amendment was ratified on February 3, 1913. I wrote about.
Yesterday, seven people were elected to the NFL Hall of Fame: Bill Parcells, Jonathan Ogden, Larry Allen, Warren Sapp, Cris Carter, and veterans committee candidates Curley Culp and Dave Robinson. A few thoughts. 1. While I can't speak to the veterans committee guys (more on...
It's a tough competition. I figure you have three candidates. First is the long-standing champion, James Inhofe, arguably the dumbest person to sit in the Senate for a long, long.
Hope you all are having as good a Saturday night as Zevon did when writing "Carmelita."
How the deuce am I not on the NRA enemies list? What the heck does a C-list blogger have to do to get on this list, use common metaphors that right-wingers pretend call for the assassination of the NRA wacko Wayne LaPierre in order to...
Marjorie Childress reports on a New Mexico lawmaker opposing right-to-know legislation on fracking: “It’s gonna fuel litigation, radical fringe groups, who don’t understand the process of what we do and.
U.S. carbon emissions keep slowly falling, down to levels not seen since 1994, despite a lot more people in this country. I'm probably a bit more skeptical about the long-term.
As I've stated before, state and local elections are arguably more important than national elections. Republicans understand this in ways that the Democratic base doesn't seem to.
Labor Notes has an interesting survey of working-class literature, asking organizers and activists about their favorite class-conscious novels. Admittedly, when I became a professor I stopped reading novels. This is.
Back to my favorite topic. As everyone should know by this point, there's absolutely no logical or historical basis for the idea that people have the right to walk around.