Free agency in baseball is basically dead, at least for high-end players. Players' current teams are buying the best players out of free agency with long-term deals that will keep most of them on the same team for the majority of their careers. Just this...
Author: Erik Loomis
I am really skeptical of guestworker programs doing anything other than providing a structure to exploit vulnerable workers. The history of guestworker programs is basically terrible and the present isn't.
It can't be stated often enough that slavery was inexorably tied with the rise of capitalism in the United States. Historian Walter Johnson: Without slavery, however, the survey maps of.
A must-read story on the problems with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, focusing on glue poisoning in a North Carolina furniture factory. The article describes OSHA as "the watchdog agency that many Americans love to hate and industry often faults as overzealous." I'm not...
When you rely on fully industrialized waterways for transportation, the effects of drought on industry that don't obviously rely on rain (like agriculture) can still be quite devastating. Such as.
The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 (also home to the Wounded Knee shootout between AIM and the FBI in 1973) is on the Pine Ridge Reservation. But not all reservation.
A typically subtle Venezuelan state animation showing Hugo Chavez in heaven met by his revolutionary ancestors: The group includes Cuban Revolution leader Che Guevara, Latin American liberator Simón Bolívar, Argentine first lady Eva Perón, Chilean President Salvador Allende, Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino, and indigenous...
It really would be outrageous to pay NCAA players. It's not like they need it. He is also a product of the extreme poverty that grips millions of families across.
Florida Gulf Coast University has come to the nation's attention in the last week due to its 2 unlikely upsets in the NCAA Tournament. This attention has also caught the.
Turns out that if you industrialize an animal and then expose them to tremendous amounts of chemical pesticides, terrible things can happen. I know that the Green Revolution and our faith in technology has worked in the short term to feed a lot of people....
I know everyone is getting excited about the new season of Mad Men. The Onion's AV Club has a great article about 10 episodes that get to the depth of.
A great photo gallery of the vanishing towns of Montana, where just a few people hold on in isolated places. Or sometimes they disappear from the map entirely. The American.