There's been a surprising number of union victories of late. I discuss several of them in my new piece at Alternet and consider their possible implications. With all of this pretty good to great news all of a sudden, one wonders, is this coincidence? Or...
Author: Erik Loomis
Over 45,000 Verizon workers in nine eastern states, under the leadership of the Communication Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have gone out of strike. This.
Kudos are in order for David Wolman, whose High Country News piece on "accidental wilderness," militiarized landscapes that unintentionally become spaces that protect large numbers of wildlife, just won a.
Allow me to share Mark Greenbaum's outrage over Chadwick Matlin's poorly thought out and virtually unexplained list of the worst Congresses in U.S. history, ending with the "inarguably-awful 37th," which from 1861-63, oversaw "the eruption of a catastrophic civil war." As Greenbaum points out, the...
Today is Victory Day, a Rhode Island state holiday. The only state to celebrate the day, it commemorates the victory over Japan in World War II. It is a state.
Mark Hatfield has died at the age of 89. Remember when the Republican Party wasn't completely crazy? I know, it seems like a mythical past to me too, one replete.
At Alternet, Tara Lohan has a really interesting long interview with radical environmentalists Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Aric McBay, who have published a new book where they call for the end to industrial civilization by any means necessary in order to save the planet....
Obama has called for a (pretty low-level) jobs program that would essentially provide preferential hiring for veterans through tax breaks for businesses. Normally I am opposed to the fetishization of.
A great piece on the wonderful Robert Ryan, one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood history. I was actually thinking of writing a series of posts on Ryan myself,.
During this long move, I've passed some of the time by listening to baseball games on the radio. On Sunday, during the longest portion of the drive, I was motoring through the interminable stretch of Pennsylvania along I-80 between nothing and nothing* listening to the...
That would totally blow Glenn Beck's mind.
I have a piece at Alternet on the new proposal issued by the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation and the United Steelworkers. Entitled "A Vision for Economic.