I am presently on the beach in the Dominican Republic. Every now and then, often when on vacation, I start reading random things one can find on the Gutenberg Project, the great collection of old public domain texts. If only copyright law was updated so...
Author: Erik Loomis
I've been so busy that I haven't done one of these in several weeks. I don't even really have any good stories to link to, but I have slowly listened.
James Green, preeminent labor historian, has died. His books reached far beyond the academy to transform popular understanding of the United States' most dramatic labor incidents. Probably his most famous.
This is a guest post by Jacob Remes, who is clinical assistant professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. His book, Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era, is available from the University of Illinois Press. He tweets at @jacremes. Charles...
Running a marathon. Why the hell would somebody do that to themselves? Indeed a vast, disturbing literature has now accumulated on the ill effects of running marathons. Studies find that.
Where are the pitchforks? Growth in median compensation may have slowed lately, or even fallen for some of the highest-paid chief executives. But this is little recompense for workers who.
Will hidden sexism hurt Hillary Clinton this fall? Quite possibly, although I'd like to see more than yet another story on Real American Voters, i.e., working-class white men from the Rust Belt, to suggest it may be so.
The great Ralph Stanley died last night at the age of 89. Stanley was the last major living figure of the early bluegrass era. He began recording with his brother.
A match truly made in Hell. Donald Trump was a brash scion of a real estate empire, a young developer anxious to leave his mark on New York. Roy Cohn.
In case you want to feel depressed, you can follow the monthly updates at Gizmodo as the Earth keeps breaking its all-time heat records. This will end well. See also.
It's completely ridiculous that it took the New York attorney general's office to force this to happen, but Jimmy John's is finally ending its practice of making its employees sign.
Great news out of Colombia, where the government and the FARC have finally come to an agreement to call a cease fire in the 50-year civil war, a cease fire.