Good Washington Post piece on the dilemma Ohio faces over fracking. People really want jobs. Cities like Canton, Youngstown, and Toledo are suffering. Long-term deindustrialization exacerbated by factory closures since 2007 have sent the area into a deep depression, as much psychological as economic. Ohioans...
Author: Erik Loomis
After 4 months, I figure it's worth getting back to the Most Prominent Politician project, particularly since all the other things I have to do this fine Sunday afternoon are.
22 Democratic Senators are calling for a marriage equality plank in this year's Democratic Party platform. Can you imagine such a thing even 4 years ago? Or 8? 20 years.
Gordon Lafer has an important piece in Radical Philosophy exploring 2011's widespread attack on working-class and union rights in so many states. Lafer rounds up the massive damage done to the working-class and points his finger at the expected suspects--ALEC, the Koch Brothers, the Chamber...
If there's one thing in this world I follow more closely than any other, it's the politics surrounding forestry in the Pacific Northwest. So I found this Michael Donnelly essay.
This seems a good time to post this song by the great and utterly unknown songwriter Buddy Tabor, who paints houses in Juneau and writes amazing songs. This is not.
There's been a lot of discussion lately about tipping culture and the awfulness of it all. It gives customers tremendous power over the people who wait on them, often dooming waitstaff to lives of poverty. It's another way to steal wages from the paychecks of...
It's not like we don't already know that the legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter is amazing. But he's also super cool for playing a big role in the American Federation.
Alyssa Rosenberg, who is pretty great herself, has been pushing the story of absurd gender disparities at major magazines, noting that, with a few exceptions like Mother Jones, men dominate.
A little French film from circa 1907 to help you have the most pleasant dreams this evening. No nightmares at all to be had tonight. Nope. None.
McArdle outdoes herself in a column entitled (and I swear this is not a parody unless someone hacked the Atlantic site) "Are the Rich Completely Undeserving of Sympathy?" Um, yes..
I'm not so sure Santorum would approve of this sex kit for church-going Polish Catholics: The dice recommends where partners should caress or kiss each other, if they have run.