That would totally blow Glenn Beck's mind.
Author: Erik Loomis
I have a piece at Alternet on the new proposal issued by the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation and the United Steelworkers. Entitled "A Vision for Economic.
So I've spent the last few days moving to Providence. It'll be a few more before blogging is back to normal. As I presently have internet access, I need some.
North Carolina has probably underperformed in producing politicians of stature more than any other state. The South is full of powerful senators, representatives, and cabinet members. Not North Carolina. As best as I can figure out, it has never produced a president, VP, Secretary of...
The White House and the major automakers have come to a deal that would raise auto efficiency requirements to as high as 54 mpg by 2025. The automakers were not.
In case we needed a reminder of domestic, right-wing "Christian" terrorism, a wacko tossed a Molotov cocktail at a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney. Texas yesterday. In other news, the.
Where will Senator Geary sit on the list of Nevada's Most Prominent Politicians?
Timothy Burke wonders if Obama isn't the next James Buchanan: The basic error was that Buchanan approached American politics in procedural or legal terms at a moment when the reigning.
In the comments to the post on moving American politics to the left, a number of people have talked about the value of 3rd parties in turning the main 2.
Yglesias correctly notes the real way to move American politics to the left: If you want to move US public policy to the left, what you have to do is to identify incumbent holders of political office and then defeat them on Election Day with...
Since writing at LGM, I’ve focused pretty heavily on labor issues over my other field of expertise—environmental issues. There’s a good reason for that and there's a less good reason..
A lot of interesting labor stories out there right now: 1. Sarah Jaffe has an excellent piece on unemployment at Alternet. Unlike all too many (almost all) reports on the.