I love Rand Paul. He's like his father, but with even fewer principles. This Paul speech about oil companies on the Senate floor is classic: Instead of punishing them, you should want to encourage them. I would think you would want to say to the...
Author: Erik Loomis
As I wrote recent my piece on tipped labor, I did a little historical research on tipping. For the sake of length, I had to cut the history out of.
Sarah Jaffe has an important piece up at Alternet exploring the realities of public sector workers in the Second Gilded Age: Beil told a story of guards at a women's.
Building off Tim Wise, I have to wonder if the next frontier in racist white backlash against Trayvon Martin will be to accuse him of threatening a white woman, placing George Zimmerman in a situation where he had to step in to protect white womanhood....
The 9-pound Gambian rat has invaded the Florida Keys, having been released there by an exotic animal breeder about 10 years ago. They are thriving, one of many species that.
Feral pigs are expanding their range and will probably be across most of North America in the next 20 years. They cause a tremendous amount of damage, not only to.
I think I speak for everyone at LGM when I say this about the new season of Mad Men: OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! 3 hours and 18 minutes until Mad Men!!!!!! I will be spending the hour before the big show watching my...
On March 25, 1911, 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City died when the building in which they worked caught on fire. One of the most.
I have 5 spots open in a 20 team MLB fantasy baseball league at ESPN. Among the LGM luminaries you can play against are Dr. Robert Farley, Dr. David Noon.
This seems appropriate for a Saturday afternoon: Unfortunately, I am spending the day working on a book chapter, but I can still dream.
Last year, faculty at the University of Illinois-Chicago formed a union that combined both tenure-track and adjunct faculty in the same bargaining unit. Seeing a threat to its exploitation of.
I've expressed my reservations before about the idea of a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall and scoffed at the protests by his granddaughters that part of the.