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 you take them wah-wahs and all that other shit and go throw it off in...
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
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 failure entirely in terms of a post-Citizens United world. Now to be fair, it was...
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.
Too close to call is a better sign than I expected. Though I imagine enough votes will come out of Waukesha County, 1948 LBJ victory-style, to push the election to.
I was OK with Joe Nocera's column coming to realize that, hey, maybe unions do have value in American society! After all, as a long-time member of the Beltway class, it is useful to see him come around on the idea rather than continue with...
Richey Piiparinen at Rust Wire has a really interesting article about reverse gentrification in Cleveland. Basically, in the Rust Belt resident patterns are flipping normal patterns. With a declining population.
I know everyone is focused on Wisconsin today, and rightfully so. But there's a race I care deeply about in New Mexico. Martin Heinrich, who currently represents the 1st Congressional.
In 1941, Pittsburgh passed a smoke control ordinance. Retronaut has a good collection of photographs suggesting why it was needed. Of course, this is also the Republican vision for our future air quality. This smoke was no joke. It could be fatal, especially given the...
Principled limited government conservatives like Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas couldn't have possibly intended that Citizens United would destroy long-standing state regulations on corporate influence over politics, such as they.
Josh Eidelson's latest column on the Walker recall election gets at a very important issue: “Unions had their place,” a woman named Jerri told me soon after I arrived in.