Dave Zirin makes the strongest possible case to root for the Heat over the Thunder--that the Zombie Sonics owners are evil, evil men. And it's a pretty compelling case.
Author: Erik Loomis
I just don't understand some types of liberals. This is particularly true of the self-hating liberal who consistently believes that if we only ignored those naughty conservatives like Rush Limbaugh.
Richard White's Railroaded is an utterly brilliant book. White has been one of the leading historians of the United States over the past 30 years. His first book, Land Use,.
I'll have several posts about Netroots Nation up over the next 2-3 days. But one thing I found myself doing was defending unions against the charge that they only look out for their own members. My general theory (and this is the way quite a...
Responding mostly to Doug Henwood's piece (I think), Corey Robin asks the labor-left a hard question: This is a challenge to the left. Not the left that’s out there already.
Twilight Greenaway's piece entitled, "The Food Movement's Final Frontier: Taking Care of Workers," is a bit of a misnomer, since the food movement has a lot of frontiers to deal.
If you ever wanted to read FBI documents on training against so-called "ecoterrorism," now is your chance. This stuff is pretty disturbing since we see an ever expanding definition of "domestic terrorism" to include more and more activities that the left engages in. Meanwhile, right-wing...
The great guitarist for Miles Davis' mid-70s bands has passed. Very sad. [SL]: A backhanded tribute to a great innovator: "Howlin' Wolf looked at me and he said 'Why don't.
What would a Netroots Nation convention be without a member of LGM representing it? Actually, it'd be like all the others because LGM hasn't ever had someone there before, I.
Dana Goldstein's latest column about youth unemployment is deeply problematic. Certainly youth unemployment is a gigantic problem. The new statistics showing that only 1/6 of recent high school graduates who are not going onto college has a full-time job is terrible. And there's nothing wrong...
A lot of coverage of Wisconsin, as one would expect. A few notes on this. First, David Gergen, anti-union hack. Ezra Klein's response was a bit frustrating. He discusses labor's.
On June 6, 1943, nearly 30 leaders of the Packard Hate Strike in a United Auto Workers-organized plant in Detroit were suspended from their jobs. The culmination of a series.