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 much about unions. In a democratic union, the kind of union supposedly liberal commentators say...
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
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..
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 free-thinking people. Education is a political act. For over half a century, the conservative movement...
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.
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, director of Friends of the Eel River, interviewing some participants in the movement to save...
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.
Corey Robin has a great post about why so many liberals hate public school teachers and don't support their labor actions. Corey grew up in a wealthy New York suburb.