A broadcast of "This I Believe," by Ralph Nafziger, founder of Hostess, in the 1950s: The most important thing to for me to remember is that what I want is not necessarily what other people want. Thinking of what people want does not start with...
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
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 has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who’s black. How did...
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.
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 out thanks to climate change and the possible extinction of wild Arabica beans. That’s the...
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..
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 for her job. Watch Pelosi beat him down. In other news, I am really glad...
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.
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.