Amanda Marcotte has an outstanding essay on how poorly the Republican Party understands American attitudes toward women and sex. In part: As for the second one, this is where the Republicans really misfired. They really overestimated public antipathy towards privileged adult women having sex while...
Author: Erik Loomis
Josh Eidelson has an important piece at The Nation reminding us of the National Labor Relations Board's vital importance for workers, an especially important issue given its extremely tenuous lifeline.
General Motors is feeling some heat for its support of the Heartland Institute and their extremist climate change denying agenda. It's sad to see GM working with these extremists, but.
I think it's great that Los Angeles is creating a new wetland in south Los Angeles. Part of a 9 acre park, this 4.5 acre wetland will bring much needed green space to a gritty neighborhood sorely lacking in parks of any kind, will process...
I think I can speak for all LGM writers in support of the Laurens County (SC) Republican Party and its pledge that it wants to demand of all Republican candidates:.
It is with great sadness that I have to write this obituary for the great Alaskan songwriter Buddy Tabor. It was only with my link to his song "3 Strikes.
Good Washington Post piece on the dilemma Ohio faces over fracking. People really want jobs. Cities like Canton, Youngstown, and Toledo are suffering. Long-term deindustrialization exacerbated by factory closures since 2007 have sent the area into a deep depression, as much psychological as economic. Ohioans...
After 4 months, I figure it's worth getting back to the Most Prominent Politician project, particularly since all the other things I have to do this fine Sunday afternoon are.
22 Democratic Senators are calling for a marriage equality plank in this year's Democratic Party platform. Can you imagine such a thing even 4 years ago? Or 8? 20 years.
Gordon Lafer has an important piece in Radical Philosophy exploring 2011's widespread attack on working-class and union rights in so many states. Lafer rounds up the massive damage done to the working-class and points his finger at the expected suspects--ALEC, the Koch Brothers, the Chamber...
If there's one thing in this world I follow more closely than any other, it's the politics surrounding forestry in the Pacific Northwest. So I found this Michael Donnelly essay.
This seems a good time to post this song by the great and utterly unknown songwriter Buddy Tabor, who paints houses in Juneau and writes amazing songs. This is not.