The scab officials did an utterly abysmal job in last weekend's NFL games. But nothing reached the extreme incompetence of last night's Denver-Atlanta game, and that doesn't even count the Broncos not showing up. Essentially, the first half of that game was unwatchable between the...
Author: Erik Loomis
Rahm Emanuel is outraged. He thought he made a deal with Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers' Union, to end the teachers strike. But see, Rahm doesn't understand very.
Somewhat to my surprise this morning, I discovered that Conservapedia actually has an entry on the Pequot War. For you non-colonialists out there, the Pequot War was a war of.
Is Michael Bloomberg starring in a new version of 1984 on Broadway? If so, this would be a good poster for the play. What, you mean this is a serious poster meant to intimidate the people of New York. Oh dear.
In case you ever wanted to see a Richard Nixon political ad that features a random picture of Jerry Garcia, here you go:
The NFL lockout of its referees is about one thing--the NFL wants to take their pensions away. Why? Because other workers don't have them so the NFL doesn't want the.
Angus Johnston with a provocative post commemorating the 49th anniversary of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. First, the girls who were killed that day weren’t small children. They were adolescents — three were fourteen years old, and the fourth, Denise McNair, was...
Katie Billotte rightfully exposes the decline of the liberal arts in higher education as an important facet of the conservative war on anything institution in this country that might create.
Nicholas Kristof is all about protecting workers--if they can fulfill his white man fantasies of swooping into Cambodian brothels to save women of color from the sex trade. If those.
I have trouble understanding people who don't believe in the theory of evolution. This is like not believing in gravity or climate change. Oh yeah, these people don't believe in that either. Anyway, I was struck by the recently discovered lesula monkey in the Democratic...
Back in July, I spent a week on California's North Coast, doing research for my book at Humboldt State, hiking, sampling the area's amazing beers, and thanks to Scott Greacen,.
1. Sarah Jaffe on the liberal pundits, including Nocera and Kristof at the Times, repeating right-wing talking points about unions. 2. Dave Zirin compares the CTU strike to the plutocrat.