I found this Douglas Blackmon piece at the Post interesting for a couple of reasons. Exploring changing demographics in the South, he notes that Republicans have far from safe majorities along the entire Atlantic coast. Growing Latino and black populations in Virginia and North Carolina...
Author: Erik Loomis
I'm going to assume anyone who actually shops today is someone I don't want to know. But in any case, you should be following the Black Friday Wal-Mart strikes, the.
Lynn Parramore's piece exposing Abraham Lincoln's history as a railroad lawyer has some demythologizing value, but it would be a lot more useful if it placed Lincoln's railroad history within.
On November 22, 1887, a group of white vigilantes crushed a Knights of Labor led strike of black sugar workers in the fields around Thibodaux, Louisiana. Fighting back against largest black social movement in the state since the end of Reconstruction, whites killed dozens and...
Seth Ackerman has a really strong article at Jacobin on the Hostess shut-down. Much of it has great value for showing just how rare it is for companies to ask.
Creepy unskewed polls guy is back with the real reason Obama won--voter fraud! [SL]: See also Weigel.
Got to give CNN a little credit. Their reporters are actually challenging power for once. First you have Anderson Cooper providing quality reporting from Gaza, along with engaging in some seriously awesome (and I'm guessing stress relieving) pushback against critics who want the American media...
One of thousands of deaths on the job in the Pacific Northwest timber industry over the years. From West Coast and Puget Sound Lumberman June 1903. A horrible accident occurred.
The Big 10 expanding to include athletic powerhouses Maryland and Rutgers makes very little sense. If there's one thing Big 10 football needs, a conference for which no single person.
At least there's an app for it now. UNITE-HERE has developed an app allowing you to find a union hotel in the cities where you stay. For those of you who travel, this is an easy way to support union workers, collective bargaining, and fair...
Robin Marty with a deeply disturbing piece about the war on birth control. Human Life International (an organization that in fact does not seem to care about actual human life,.
Marco Rubio in an interview with GQ. GQ: How old do you think the Earth is? Marco Rubio: I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history.