Rare good news for the labor movement. In spite of Trump's attacks on unions, or perhaps because of them, for the first time in years, labor union membership ticked up last year. The share of American workers in unions edged up in 2025, the first...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the kind of bullshit that fascist governments do: It’s been almost a week since the federal government announced that officials planned to “draw down” the number of federal.
If you watched basketball in the 80s, no coach was like Doug Moe. In an era of big personalities as coaches--Pat Riley, Jack Ramsay, Chuck Daly--Moe was one of a.
Any appeal to the Old Norms is useless politics. Things have to totally change when Democrats next take power. Any attempt to just return to "how things used to be" will lead to the sweeping of a new generation of crazy Republicans, in part because...
Bari and friends are all about FREE SPEECH. See, Stephen Colbert had Texas Senate candidate James Talarico lined up to be on his show. And CBS lawyers vetoed it, said.
Jesse Jackson has died. One of the most important civil rights leaders in the post-King era, Jackson was a complicated man with a complex legacy. He had quite an ability.
This is the grave of Lawrence Eagleburger. Born in 1930 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Eagleburger grew up in an upper middle class household. His father was a doctor and his mother taught school. Don't believe the mythology of the past that women didn't work outside the...
This is the grave of Lorraine Hansberry. Born in 1930 in Chicago, Hansberry grew up in the upper middle class part of the Black community in that city. Her father.
This is the grave of Anne Heche. Born in 1969 in Aurora, Ohio, Heche grew up in the kind of world that can make someone have a lot of issues--hardcore.
This is the grave of Eva Gabor. Born in 1919 in Budapest, Gabor grew up in a glamorous Jewish household. Her father was a prominent officer and her mother came from a major jeweler family and unlike many women, she was actively involved and had...
This is nuts: According to the American Psychiatric Association, nearly 40 percent of men and 20 percent of women gamble online daily. Two percent of those bettors gamble more than ten hours.
Google continues to hold up to its initial slogan of "Don't Be Evil": Google fulfilled an Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoena that demanded a wide array of personal data on a.