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 parties to your position. I am skeptical and I think that a cursory look at...
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
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 unemployed, she actually focuses on people who are unemployed, gathering their stories with a particular...
This is just outrageous: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed legislation that officially classifies beer as alcohol in Russia. The new law will allow controls on the sale of beer.
This is awesome: C. The HPT Meeting. Around the Pentagon, HPT stands for “high-payoff target,” and that’s exactly what you’re aiming for, so use this tactic sparingly. Here, HPT is.
In a rare piece of sensible legislation coming out of California, rural homeowners who rely on state firefighters for basic fire services will have to pay a $150 annual fee. This makes a tremendous amount of sense, even if California was not suffering through its...
Excellent essay at Only the Cinema on Out of Sight, clearly Soderbergh's best film (though a strong case can be made for The Limey) and one of the most entertaining.
It's possible that some education "reformers" really do care about improving childhood education. But many of them care about union-busting much, much more.
The Netflix price spike annoys me as much as everyone else. I don't mind paying for my films, and indeed I do, but the combination of the on-demand and mail services is extraordinarily annoying. Jim Emerson gets at some of the key issues: The more...
I've talked before about how young progressive bloggers don't seem to have too much interest in labor history or labor issues more broadly. Of course, most of the voices in.
Like most of you, I am absolutely shocked that Lenny Dykstra would prove to be a complete fraud. Not fresh news here I know, but it actually is amazing that.