If we are returning to the Gilded Age, we might as well be drinking their cocktails too, which have become all the rage. That's mostly a good thing as the austerity cocktails of the post-Prohibition Era have their place (I love a good martini of...
Author: Erik Loomis
As you have may have heard, in September, the municipal police of a town in Guerrero, Mexico where the mayor and his wife had close ties with the cartels kidnapped.
Ben Railton has an intriguing post about the influence of the 1994 elections on today. Outside of the obvious Gingrich and Contract with America stuff, he comes up with three:.
I know my trust in the quality of the chicken I eat (not that I eat very much) is really reinforced by the United States now accepting Chinese imports of cooked chicken products that come from chickens grown in "approved nations." If there's one thing,...
Technological advances are going to take away basically all of our jobs. This workless future should frighten all of us. It certainly worries Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla. To say.
I'm not completely convinced that this is central to the Starbucks recipe. A New York pastor has warned that Starbucks coffees are flavoured with the “semen of sodomites”. Coffee chain.
It's pretty difficult to argue that racists are not a huge part of the Republican coalition. Every since the moment Obama won the presidency, white racial resentment has been flowing out of American conservatives and that is a hate well that remains uncapped. Although birtherism...
Our valued commenter Bruce Vail has an important piece at In These Times on the Baltimore NPR station hiring a notorious unionbusting firm to ensure its workers do not have.
Andrew Lawler provides an excellent history of chicken's rise through the 20th century from minor part of the American diet to American companies feeding the world with it. The modern.
Benjamin Smith has your day's must read about the status of the Mexican drug cartels and what seems to be the Mexican government's attempt to create a sort of super-cartel to keep the peace. There pretty much is no positive angle in any of this,...
Leave it to the Soviets to have done the worst possible thing in any given situation: After the war, with Brest's Jewish community devastated, the Communists set about getting rid.
Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe is now available for preorder at Amazon. I know Amazon is evil. However, many independent bookstores now base.