Most of us have a strong impression of Black Power--dudes in sunglasses and afros holding big guns and talking about violence. That was the impression that a lot of left-leaning white people had at the time too. But Instead of something to disapprove of, it...
Author: Erik Loomis
You've heard of racial determinism. But have you ever seen racial determinism combined with pie? I thought not. This 1902 New York Times article about the relationship between pie and.
The latest in Ethan Persoff's fantastic series of social issue related comic books is out, this time a piece of propaganda from the Canadian nuclear power industry. I don't know.
I'm really glad the Huffington Post boycott has ended so I can again write about their terrible medical coverage. Why does the site give such an extensive platform to complete quacks? What is it about a certain segment of the population, by and large liberals,...
Last weekend, while I was in Oakland, I wandered over to Occupy Oakland for a bit. They had an interesting sort of public history exhibit. Someone had strung up a.
Colin Snider, my old blogging partner from Alterdestiny, has started a new blog dedicated to Latin American issues. It's been up for a month or so now with many excellent.
According to Mike Elk's Twitter feed (@mikeelk), the Newspaper Guild and National Writers Union have called off the boycott of Huffington Post as Arianna Huffington has agreed to a statement of principles on its writers being paid. The NWU seems less than thrilled about it...
Cara Pike at Climate Access has a good run-down of the reasons, outside of the broken legislative process which I think is a relatively small problem in dealing with climate.
Sarah Jaffe on the atrocious Andrew Cuomo and his hard work to protect millionaires from taxes. I especially like when Cuomo compares his own fight to eliminate New York's millionaire.
In an incredibly great piece of public health news, researchers are getting very close to developing a vaccination against malaria. The first study showed the risk of malaria cut in half across seven African nations. Malaria is an enormous killer across the developing world. The...
One hallmark of Occupy Wall Street has been consensus decision-making. Over the last decade, progressive groups have come to rely on consensus as the primary way they make decisions. And.
Yglesias thinks I said something that I didn't in my post from earlier on school reform: Erik Loomis stands up for teachers by asserting that their professional skills are irrelevant.