Stephen Greenhouse has an outstanding article on worker centers, particularly the Texas-based Workers Defense Project, that provide union-like groups to some of the poorest workers in the United States, especially undocumented immigrants. Worker centers have provided a lot of inspiration in the last few years...
Author: Erik Loomis
Pierce makes an excellent point about how our 24-hour news cycle eliminates extraordinarily important stories that deserve long-term coverage. This reality is a huge boon to business and the corrupt,.
Schools are listed here with no comment provided. The list of most LGBT unfriendly schools is largely a repeat of last year with 16 returning schools and four replacements (in.
Gary Rubinstein does some number crunching from New York school test report that showed declining scores and what he finds exposes more Rheeism lies: In the Stephanie Simon report she mentions that KIPP Star and Democracy Prep hadn鈥檛 done so well with their proficiency rate,...
Dylan Matthews responded on Twitter to my brief criticism of his column on Thursday , leading to a good debate that eventually included Mike Konczal, Jamelle Bouie, David Roberts, Ned.
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One chapter of my book is on Oregon reforestation cooperatives from the 1970s who found their countercultural work ideal disrupted when the Forest Service sprayed them with pesticides. One of the key members of the main cooperative, known as the Hoedads, was Gerry Mackie. After...
On August 9, 1910, the first patent was issued for the electric washing machine. I am going to use this seemingly random event as a jumping off point to explore.
As you probably heard, Karen Black died. A key actress to so many major films of the 70s, she succumbed to cancer. She could have had a dignified end of.
One of the unsung legends of country music. More known as a producer than performer or songwriter, but he was everywhere in country music for 50 years. "Let's All Help the Cowboys Sing the Blues" is probably best known because of Waylon Jennings doing it...
I was asked to provide a write-up of a panel at the Labor and Working Class History Association meeting on the Chicago Teachers Union struggle. It gave me an opportunity.
Good on Slate for joining other news organizations in refusing to use the given name of the Washington football club. I do disagree with David Plotz about what he calls.