President Obama is proposing quite an expansive set of gun control legislation. It's very impressive and it'll be interesting to see whether it can past. In a sense, this will be atest of Green Lanterism. All the necessary conditions are set. Obama is fully behind...
Author: Erik Loomis
The first known photograph of someone flipping off a camera in history. None other than legendary baseball pitcher and general rounder, Old Hoss Radbourn, Opening Day, 1886. @oldhossradbourn could not.
Colin with a good run-down of recent news about the quasi-coup that forced Fernando Lugo from power in Paraguay last year. It sounds like a combination of gratuitous police violence.
If you haven't seen David Brooks' syllabus for the class he's teaching at Yale this semester, entitled "The Humility Course," well, you are in for a treat. Here's a few choice sessions: Week 1: The Reticence Code (January 15) How did American leaders in the...
Much credit to Seattle teachers at Garfield and Ballard High Schools for refusing to give a flawed standardized test to their students. Laura Clawson: The MAP appears to be a.
You thought McArdle was as low as The Atlantic could go? Oh no. Not even close. How about allowing Scientology to write a "Sponsor Content" that looks just like a.
Benjy Sarlin with a nice overview of how organized labor has shifted from a key anti-immigration force to one supporting immigration with great fervor. To be sure, there are a lot of individual unions, particularly in the building trades, that are not pro-immigration. But those...
I thought this Post article on Michelle Rhee was going to be a total puff piece, but it at least presents some facts that show her claims are never backed.
Elias Isquith (and some commenters here) is skeptical that Jack Lew's anti-graduate student union history matters for his nomination for Secretary of Treasury. He bases it on two points. One,.
As someone dedicated to building bridges between the labor and environmental movements, this post from Good promoting the idea of online grocery stores makes me want to hold my head in my hands. The post never says a word about labor or workers. What it...
Coal mine baron and Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, owner of the Upper Big Branch mine where 29 miners were killed in an explosion in 2010, shares his thoughts on.
1. Montpelier, Ohio decides to arm their school custodians. "Sitting back and doing nothing and hoping it doesn't happen to you is just not good policy anymore. There is a.