Obama endorses repealing the Defense of Marriage Act. Good for him. Let's see if it happens. It will soon, if not in 2011. Also, it'd be nice if Democrats realized that the strategies behind the gay rights movement--pushing for a program with refusal to compromise...
Author: Erik Loomis
Over at Crooked Timber, Henry has a really interesting commentary to this Doug Henwood piece attacking the neoliberal left. Henry: Neo-liberals tend to favor a combination of market mechanisms and.
I have an article at Global Comment on fracking, expanding on some of the themes I've discussed here over the past few weeks. Regarding Andrew Cuomo's appointment of leading environmentalists.
Interesting piece on food trucks in the Times. A couple of thoughts. 1. The complaint from restauranteurs about a loss of business when food trucks pull up is mostly absurd. I say mostly because if a food truck is never there and then is suddenly...
Yes, clearly the Blue Jays must have been stealing signs for Bartolo Colon to implode...... I haven't felt this bad for the Yankees since Brian Cashman cried that the Mariners.
This was a really hard list to put together. The bench in New York is probably deeper than any other state in the nation. 1. Franklin Roosevelt--our second greatest president..
Some labor notes for your Friday: 1. Verizon is attacking its own workers, attempting to force 45,000 workers to tie pay to performance and pay into their own health care plans. The CWA and IBEW are organizing their members to protest. One would hope that...
I highly recommend Meghan O'Gieblyn's piece in Guernica about growing up in a home-schooled evangelical household listening to Christian rock and then discovering actual rock and roll. It's an interesting.
Given the massive attack by conservatives on teaching U.S. history (particularly with the Texas textbooks), I am very pleased to hear of Jerry Brown signing a bill ordering the teaching.
On July 14, 1877, the Great Railroad Strike began in Martinsburg, West Virginia. After the Civil War, industrialists engaged in an enormous rail building program. Much of this was funded through shaky and corrupt means, leading to the Panic of 1873. When the bubble burst...
Historiann links to a good piece by Lynn Lubamersky at Inside Higher Ed, arguing for using Skype for first-round academic interviews rather than forcing everyone to fly to a cold.
Again, I just have a really hard time understanding why we don't trust the energy industry to look out for our best interests? In 2007, Berry Energy Inc. of Clarksburg.