The New York Times is correct. Aung San Suu Kyi has completely failed as a leader to do anything or even speak up about the oppression of the Rohingya in Myanmar. There is no question that Rakhine State, one of the poorest in Myanmar, is...
Author: Erik Loomis
Above: Children mining gold in Mali, more beneficiaries of free trade Once again, industry must be held legally accountable for their supply chains. This week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation.
I thought I would try a little experiment. Take a David Brooks column on Trump and sit on it for a couple of weeks to see how outdated it would.
This is an excellent point by Ben Casselman. Why do factory workers make more in Michigan? In a word: unions. The Midwest was, at least until recently, a bastion of union strength. Southern states, by contrast, are mostly “right-to-work” states where unions never gained a...
My friend Phil Eli wrote a nice profile of Amy Goodman for The Forward. Given Goodman's sizable role on the American left, the lack of actual knowledge about her in.
I didn't really mean this to be "pick on Texas" day, but don't blame me, blame Texas. Remember those nice Texas history standards from a few years back that decided.
Above: Slaves in the fishing industry, more beneficiaries of free trade Seafood industry publications are already talking up the expansion of Vietnamese fish exports under the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But what guarantees will there be that the people producing this fish are not slaves, an endemic...
This is a really interesting article on Houston. Probably the most car-centric city and certainly the most anti-zoning, given that it doesn't have any, city in the nation, Houston is.
Since Texas obviously has the best system of education and most fair social programs in the United States, they have nothing better to spend public funds on. So might as.
This is an excellent report on how hedge fund managers have been behind the charter school movement since the very beginning. Now they are buying school board seats by overwhelming cities with campaign donations that competitors who oppose charter schools can't begin to match. From...
Above: More beneficiaries of free trade David Dayen argues that the free trade consensus is dead. Speaking on Monday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, U.S. Trade.
In the last year of the Obama administration, expect to see a large number of new national park sites named, largely national monuments since the president can do this unilaterally.