Charlie Pierce is right-on, as usual: My track record on this guy is pretty clear — and, occasionally, the topic of some hilarity around the home office. This is what I do know about him. John Edwards was the only Democratic presidential candidate since Jesse...
Author: Erik Loomis
I feel like this Alessandra Stanley preview of the upcoming first episode of Season 5 of Mad Men is a predictable as a Pitchfork review of a band's 4th album.
Who knew that gluttony on the scale of 18th century royalty would lead to major health problems?
Since last week I dared suggest that there could be problems with white people running around the world saving brown people from themselves and was thereby proven to be objectively in favor of white slavery, I might as well continue in my nefarious ways by...
Doesn't this just make you feel bad for poor Bill Kristol? Looking back at the day's news, I must admit I'm having trouble maintaining my customary good cheer. Watching Mitt.
I have a piece up at Alternet on restaurant labor, examining the exploitative nature of the $2.13 an hour tipped minimum wageand exploring some possibilities to even the playing field..
So I was in a bit of a Twitter argument last night with Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association (@rgfeal) over the issue of humanities Ph.D. students reaching fluency in non-English languages. The MLA is now advising that English Ph.D. programs require...
You could read idiotic anonymous trolls taking over comment threads on my previous posts or you could enrich yourself today by reading Andrew Hartman's very interesting essay asking a question.
If I dare suggest that the shockingly warm temperatures in the eastern half of the country, temperatures that by a gigantic margin make up the biggest March heat wave in.
Jake Blumgart with an excellent discussion of why labor rights should be considered civil rights: It is for these reasons that Kahlenberg and Marvit argue that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act should be extended to cover labor organizing. In Why Labor Organizing Should...
The European Tourist: "No-smoking areas? It's incredible!" said Michael Kuntze, a 59-year-old German day care manager who was savoring a long cigar and sipping rum and cola in the Hotel.
It's rare that I would look to the New York Times for a decent critique of American news reporting, but this is pretty good: When 24-hour news channels debuted, we.