The Labor and Working-Class History Association has started a new blog called Labor Online. I was asked to be a contributing editor. Here's my first post, on the United Mine Workers attacks on environmentalists and the Democratic Party and how workers allow companies to blind...
Author: Erik Loomis
The number of excellent links out there I want to talk about is overwhelming me. So I am linking instead. If you haven't heard Lee Atwater fully articulating the Southern.
Charlie Webster, Chair of the Maine Republican Party: In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day. Everybody.
Jane McAlevey excerpts from her new book of her decade as an organizer struggling against both corporations doing terrible things and the strategies of the labor leaders themselves. McAlevey talks of organizing against a decertification election at a for-profit hospital chain in Las Vegas. Pretty...
Once again, large swaths of the Republican Party oppose international definitions of basic human rights: For the first time, the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) explicitly described family planning as a.
If this doesn't get Americans interested in climate change, nothing will: A cup of morning coffee could be much harder to find, and much more expensive, before the century is.
This month's Sidney Award went to Jina Moore for her excellent article on poverty in modern America. Asking what is poverty, Moore notes that no one can agree on it. But a really good definition of poverty is lack of access to a healthy variety...
Building upon yesterday's discussion, Jaymi Heimbuch provides a really good roundup of the complexities of wild horses on the western range. For as legitimate as the reasons to want to.
Luke Russert, who replaces John Podhoretz as the most unqualified beneficiary of nepotism in American life today, actually told Nancy Pelosi in a press conference that she was too old.
Ezra asks a question I think of a lot of Democrats are asking now and were asking in early 2009--Does Barack Obama want Mitch McConnell to be Majority Leader? Obama has always had a political blind spot when it comes to cabinet appointments. He has...
I know that Robert Bray is a professional historian but the idea that Lincoln has useful lessons for President Obama as he enters his second term is 20 degrees of.
The legacy of wild horses in the West is somewhat complicated. They are iconic, evoking images of a lost, wild and romantic West. On the other hand, they can be.