The labor historian Cindy Hahamovitch on the already terrible agricultural guestworker program that agricultural interests want to deregulate even more in a new immigration bill. The guestworker program continued but in recent years abuses have gotten nastier. When growers demanded a bigger and less regulated...
Author: Erik Loomis
The Center for Investigative Reporting has an outstanding animation up about fish politics and who controls the fisheries. Essentially, the catch shares system for regulating fisheries has turned into creating.
Erick Erickson for this lovely tweet: That lefties are accusing the new pope of handing over lefties to the right wing junta for execution makes me adore the new pope..
Among the many problems with decentralized charter school systems is that students end up being taught anything that the crazy people who often run them want. Such is the case in Louisiana with its loony state voucher system (presently under court review). The 8th grade...
The education capitalists have a great plan. We starve the universities by reducing their state funding so much that students can't easily graduate in 4 years. Then we get our.
Why actually pay conservative hacks to write propaganda for your anti-democratic government. All you have to do is ask and they are evidently happy to do so for free. As.
And so begins the fourth generation: George P. Bush, the eldest son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush and nephew of former president George W. Bush, is running for Texas land commissioner in 2014. Bush had already announced that he intended to run for statewide...
If there's one thing Americans love, it's food faddism. The history of full of weirdness, from John Harvey Kellogg's yogurt enemas that placed yogurt cultures in our mouths and rectums.
Discovered by @megmantis, this Oklahoma law, enacted in 1919 and amended as late as 1999: Any person in this state, who shall carry or cause to be carried, or publicly.
Meet the American Enterprise Institute's hot new hire--Joe Lieberman! [SL]: Nobody could have seen this coming!
Adele Stan with a serious takedown of the obnoxious, overrated, and generally awful David Sirota, who attacked her with a typically aggressive, sloppy, and falsifying column when she questioned progressives.
I agree with Dean Baker that the 7.7% unemployment rate is likely a blip that will rise right back up with the cascading impact of the sequester and continued decline.