My good friend Michelle Rhee is at it again: Rhee, the former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools and Founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, told the capacity crowd that businesses evaluate their employees based on rigorous standards and public schools should too. Rhee was the keynote...
Author: Erik Loomis
Republicans truly do care about our troops..... Republican Senators John McCain, Scott Brown, and Susan Collins all support an effort by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, to.
This is obviously the greatest Tumblr ever.
Pick up a copy of Redbook. It's the only magazine dedicated to young adults. This is what I believe is known as a rich text.
The people of the Evergreen State are really, really bitter about the Thunder advancing to the finals. Make sure you read below the lead headline as well.
Easily the worst panel I saw at Netroots Nation was titled, "Beyond Occupy: What Does a New Economic System Look Like?" Now, doesn't that seem like a really interesting panel?.
Two great labor slogans here. First, we have this campaign from UNITE-HERE and the LGBT community to get same-sex couples to not stay in non-union hotels. We then have this from Palermo's frozen pizza workers in Milwaukee. The Palermo workers have formed an independent union...
Derek Thompson at The Atlantic allowed me to respond to his forum asking whether unions are necessary. And in the leadoff position no less. Here it is: The question of.
Since right-wingers stupidly decided to make the penguin their official animal of morality in the culture war, it's of great enjoyment to learn more about the actual sexual behavior of.
Such is the the name of Derek Thompson's forum at The Atlantic today, effectively a space for random people to write about how much unions suck. Though to be fair, union people are arriving to this forum in good numbers as are people less committed...
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's piece from a couple of days ago explaining his research connecting racially charged Google searches with voting patterns for Barack Obama has made the rounds. And while I'm.
Laura Clawson provides an extremely useful service in compiling a glossary of terrible labor coverage. An example: Big labor—Ooh, scary, right? Not just labor, not just unions, not just millions.