Above: People who have clearly won because of free trade Whenever Vox wants to defend free trade like an evangelist defends some dude walking on water, it gets Zack Beauchamp to write about it. There was of course the ridiculous fear-mongering...
Author: Erik Loomis
The Missouri Republican Party, home of such luminaries as Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin, continues to lead the nation in anti-women politics. A month after threatening to imprison a Planned Parenthood.
North Carolina is great at two things these days. One is rampant labor exploitation. The other is horrendous wingnut state legislators. I wonder if we can combine those issues? Of.
The worst thing in the 2016 election cycle is the return of Andrew Sullivan to bloviating. Sully is VERY CONCERNED about the rise of Trump and why people would vote for him. Of course, as Tom Scocca notes, Sullivan's lifelong writings have contributed to this,...
Progressives should not be supporting regressive sin taxes because they want to punish people for their behaviors. The mayor of Philadelphia has proposed a soda tax..
The Nation continues in this most befuddling trend of the 2016 election, seriously wondering if the 2-party system as we currently know it is about to fall apart. The answer.
This is the grave of Nathanael Greene. Nathanael Greene, Rhode Island's biggest contribution to the American Revolution, was born in 1742 in Warwick. He didn't do anything particularly unusual before the American Revolution, although he was a strong sympathizer with the colonists' cause against the...
Now this is certainly interesting. The leaders of two of the nation’s biggest, most powerful labor unions — the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County.
Last week, when I reviewed Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton, one of the key points I hoped I made was how Beckert connects the exploitation of cotton upon the peoples.
Haven't done one of these in a few weeks. Here's some interesting articles, album reviews, and tidbits. Country music humor is almost universally terrible as comedy, from "Uncle Josh" routines performed by any number of old-time and country bands through World War II to Minnie...
The tobacco companies persist in employing children to harvest tobacco. Not in Malawi and China. In Virginia and North Carolina. Various North Carolina farmers partnered with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Because it is so despised by right-wingers, there's a temptation to defend Common Core education standards. But as with so much of the education reformers' agenda, in practice it is.