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Author: Erik Loomis

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Bernie Sanders and the Congressional Black Caucus are at odds over the former's demands for changes in the primary process. In a letter sent to both the Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigns, the CBC is expressing its resolute opposition to two key reforms demanded by...
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Bernie and Labor

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On June 20, 2016
One more postmortem of the 2016 primary. Joe Burns writes in Jacobin that what labor needs to learn from the Sanders campaign is to reintegrate radicalism into its thinking. A lot of it is just revisiting the anti-communist purges of the CIO and decrying the...
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A Deal with the Devil

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On June 19, 2016
I want to give my kudos to Cleveland, making a deal with Satan to win this NBA title in exchange for hosting the Republican National Convention. Satan probably wins this deal, but I would have made it too.
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Women and the Draft

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On June 19, 2016
The Senate passed a bill requiring women to register for the draft. In the latest and perhaps decisive battle over the role of women in the military, Congress is embroiled in an increasingly intense debate over whether they should have to register for the draft...
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