As we discussed the other day, we don't really know what the heck is going with the Zika virus. We do know that it is causing a variety of health problems in different places that are very bad. The most prominent is microcephaly, where babies...
Author: Erik Loomis
Important new research here on the connections between major toxic polluters and where they site their factories: We ask the following questions: (I) Are producer disproportionalities present and consistent across.
If you are looking for some good long reads this Saturday, check out this forum on placing the Flint water crisis in historical context, featuring some of our leading environmental.
Pareene nails why Hillary Clinton citing Henry Kissinger is a problem--she just doesn't understand the Democratic primary voter very well. The point I’m making here is not, [Glenn Greenwald voice] HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTS A WAR CRIMINAL. (Trust me, I know Kissinger isn’t moving many votes...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was officially signed by the negotiating countries in Auckland a couple of days ago. This received almost no news coverage, although it will when it goes up.
Rebecca Onion highlights some pages from Lewis Tappan's anti-slavery children's magazine that he ran in the late 1830s. Because the American Anti-Slavery Society favored complete and immediate emancipation, writes historian.
Republicans and neoliberals working in both parties have decimated or wants to decimate much of the American welfare state. But there are exceptions. No one is taking corn subsidies away from Iowa farmers. But they are even going after military benefits, once a cornerstone of...
I think there's plenty of room to critique Ta-Nehisi Coates from a class perspective. And I don't think it's particularly useful for us to look at one or two people.
Kara Brown is damned tired of slavery movies. I am not, but I get that every other high-profile Oscar-nominated film about black lives is an exercise in filming black bodily.
Above: Survivors and Families of the Rana Plaza Collapse Protest in Bangladesh, November 2013 Maybe. In the aftermath of Rana Plaza, the European apparel companies (not the major U.S. ones like Gap, Target, or Walmart of course) decided it was in their interests to take...
This is the grave of William "Boss" Tweed I hardly need to provide a biography of the man whose name is synonymous throughout the United States with political corruption. Tweed,.
Get used to this guy Really, really screwed. The Cook Political Report came out with ratings Wednesday for how House elections are shaping up. The simple math: Just 33 seats.