Like Yglesias, I pretty much believe that being evicted from Zuccotti Park is about the best thing that could happen to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Let's face it, they had not succeeded in the last couple of weeks in retaining the media's attention. The...
Author: Erik Loomis
The great James McMurtry offers his song "We Can't Make It Here" as a free download in support of the Occupy movement. Says McMurtry: We quit playing "We Can't Make.
Pretty good Times piece on the rapidly growing Latino populations in the Great Plains. Of course, a lot of the local whites are outraged. On the other hand, their towns.
Larry Cebula offers an argument we hear frequently: that no one should go on for a Ph.D. because there aren't jobs. Cebula covers the basic points: delayed income earnings that will never pay off, massive debt, living in horrible parts of the country, etc. It's...
I really hope this class-action lawsuit filed by former unpaid interns over the exploitative nature of their internships at Fox Searchlight Pictures succeeds. The rise of unpaid internships has been.
It's always been my position that the Times needs to run more articles explaining to us the hard lives of the Manhattan rich. Now it turns out they have to.
The fact that the Arizona Diamondbacks and agent Scott Boras got into a public spat over the impeding free agency of Willie Bloomquist is, to say the least, the most absurd thing I've heard all day. Luckily for Bloomquist, the Diamondbacks bought Boras' high-end crack...
On November 11, 1919, the people of Centralia, Washington, a small lumber town in the southwestern part of the state, celebrated the first anniversary of Armistice Day with a parade..
I think every environmentalist is ecstatic to see the Obama Administration pull back on approving the Keystone XL pipeline, ordering it back into review at the State Department. Essentially, the.
That was the mantra of the environmental movement in the 1970s and 1980s when we as a nation learned not to litter and that we shouldn't throw everything away. Of course, we still aren't very good at it (and see Coca-Cola vetoing the National Park...
Count me as one who is quite glad that William Tecumseh Sherman sufficiently recovered from his severe depression to burn Georgia and South Carolina.
I spend a lot of time around college students. As do all the writers of this blog and an impressive chunk of the readership. I feel like I know the.