Do you like to dive? Do you like cool colorful tropical fish? Do you like coral reefs? If you do, take advantage now because they are going away very, very fast. In another 50 years, coral reefs will be a myth our grandchildren won't believe,...
Author: Erik Loomis
Chait is really optimistic about the future of liberalism given the political leanings of young people: What all this suggests is that we may soon see a political landscape that.
Nyki Salinas-Duda has an interesting though flawed article about the increasingly tense relationship between the left-leaning Latin American governments elected in recent years and indigenous peoples who helped elect them..
I really want to recommend Sarah Jaffe's long-form interview with Jane McAlevey about her new book that I referred to here. McAlevey makes some really important points about a number of issues concerning labor--the restrictiveness of Taft-Hartley, how the Democratic Party dictates the agenda to...
One of my favorite things about American racism is that the nation's commitment to white supremacy has both encouraged imperialist wars of conquest and then horrifying the racial sensitivities of.
Colin points us to this piece on a declining Jewish cemetery in Curacao, threatened by the elements and the gigantic refinery built right next to it. As Colin notes for.
I am happy to argue that a discussion of Civil War underwear is at least as interesting as a movie about Abraham Lincoln and far more interesting than battlefield tactics. This is especially true when we realize the story of underwear is a story about...
The Black Friday strike at Wal-Mart was interesting. I'm a bit skeptical that it means a lot, but who knows what will to what. People thought Occupy or the Battle.
The University of Colorado caved to the gun lobby and created gun-friendly dorms. At the present, there are floors that are gun-friendly. A dorm for the armed is opening in.
Within American labor history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire is a touchstone moment. That tragedy led directly to a spate of workplace safety laws and building regulations. In the longer term, it helped spur the union movement that changed the lives of the American working class....
You may have seen this study that came out a week or so ago showing that American adults consume almost as many "empty calories" through alcohol as through soda. In.
I found this Douglas Blackmon piece at the Post interesting for a couple of reasons. Exploring changing demographics in the South, he notes that Republicans have far from safe majorities.