While the nation plunges ahead with fracking, it's worth reminding ourselves of the inconsistent enforcement of existing environmental regulations. That so much of the enforcement resides with the states combines with the fact that industry insiders hold a tremendous number of regulatory positions to make...
Author: Erik Loomis
Speaking of protest marches, NPR has a good little piece on the Bonus Army, which occupied Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932. These protestors had a very concrete goal--the.
So I saw this political ad yesterday while eating my morning bagel: This is produced by Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, connecting Elizabeth Warren to the "extreme left protests" and "violence".
Like Yglesias, I pretty much believe that being evicted from Zuccotti Park is about the best thing that could happen to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Let's face it, they had not succeeded in the last couple of weeks in retaining the media's attention. The...
The great James McMurtry offers his song "We Can't Make It Here" as a free download in support of the Occupy movement. Says McMurtry: We quit playing "We Can't Make.
Pretty good Times piece on the rapidly growing Latino populations in the Great Plains. Of course, a lot of the local whites are outraged. On the other hand, their towns.
Larry Cebula offers an argument we hear frequently: that no one should go on for a Ph.D. because there aren't jobs. Cebula covers the basic points: delayed income earnings that will never pay off, massive debt, living in horrible parts of the country, etc. It's...
I really hope this class-action lawsuit filed by former unpaid interns over the exploitative nature of their internships at Fox Searchlight Pictures succeeds. The rise of unpaid internships has been.
It's always been my position that the Times needs to run more articles explaining to us the hard lives of the Manhattan rich. Now it turns out they have to.
The fact that the Arizona Diamondbacks and agent Scott Boras got into a public spat over the impeding free agency of Willie Bloomquist is, to say the least, the most absurd thing I've heard all day. Luckily for Bloomquist, the Diamondbacks bought Boras' high-end crack...
On November 11, 1919, the people of Centralia, Washington, a small lumber town in the southwestern part of the state, celebrated the first anniversary of Armistice Day with a parade..
I think every environmentalist is ecstatic to see the Obama Administration pull back on approving the Keystone XL pipeline, ordering it back into review at the State Department. Essentially, the.