Bill Moyers, Bill Fletcher, and Stephen Lerner talking about the decline of labor unions [link fixed]--you know this is going to be like 1000% more insightful than your average cable television news show. A very important excerpt: BILL FLETCHER, JR.: The difficulty in developing and...
Author: Erik Loomis
To build slightly on Scott's post, let me recommend Lindsay Beyerstein's excellent piece today decrying those who use Jenny McCarthy's nude modeling as a reason to dismiss her crazy anti-vaccine.
On July 11, 1892 striking silver miners in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho blew up the Frisco Mill, a mine building filled with guards, after getting into a firefight with Pinkertons, killing.
History News Network has a poll up right now asking readers to vote for the least credible history book in print. I've read two of the five: Zinn's People History and Gavin Menzies' 1421. The latter is the worst book I've ever read. It would...
NPR, along with Ken Ward at Coal Tattoo, provide the day's most powerful and disturbing story: the return of black lung disease to coal miners. Despite the Federal Coal Mine.
I was interviewed today on Flashpoints, talking about the return of the Gilded Age in the early 21st century. At the end, I even got to talk about how I.
Corey Robin on Friedrich von Hayek's love of the right kind of dictatorship, i.e. right-wing CIA supported dictators like Augusto Pinochet.
I'm presently on a 6-week research trip to the Pacific Northwest and am presently working in Eugene, Oregon. Our former governor is a man named Ted Kulongoski. In the 1970s,.
Shorter Louisiana Republicans--"Religious freedom means the freedom to force you to follow my religion."
David Brooks imagines Shakespeare's Henry V in an American school circa 2012. Uh..... It's every bit as terrible as you might imagine. So instead of quoting this garbage, let's quote Pierce instead: Look, I like you people. I really do. But do I have to...
A digest of This Day in Labor History July 6, 1892--The Homestead StrikeJuly 12, 1917--The Bisbee DeportationJuly 14, 1877--The Great Railroad StrikeSeptember 9, 1739--The Stono RebellionSeptember 17, 1989--The Pittston StrikeOctober.
Who wants to hear William Jennings Bryan give his Cross of Gold speech? Recorded in 1923. Surely not with the power of 1896, but still. Bryan's voice starts at about.