I have a long-running hate of the Times Room for Debate feature. Giving a bunch of people 100 words to make a case just feeds both sides do it syndrome. That's especially true since the feature consistently combines scholars and experts with crazy people. Take...
Author: Erik Loomis
On March 20, 1854, the Republican Party was founded at a meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin. Ideas of labor, both free and slave, were central to Republican Party ideology and would.
The NLRB simply does not work for private sector labor. The long appeals and lack of meaningful punishment for corporate violations means that employers can engage in open intimidation of.
Ever since the 1820s, Americans have used the founding fathers as a mirror to themselves. This is what we see in that mirror today. Until I see James Madison posting up Mao, I don't believe this country has reached its potential.
Andrew Sum, et al have a powerful report on the underemployed generation that is today's youth. Here's the whole report in PDF form. For young people with low levels of.
We hardly need to cover the incredible corruption of FIFA. It's only a matter of finding out how much money the Qatar sheiks and Russian oligarchs put in the pockets.
Ben Casselman usefully tries to figure out just how many people are trying to survive and support themselves on less than President Obama's proposed $10.10 minimum wage. While solid numbers are hard to nail down, it's certainly not a bunch of teenagers working part time...
I'm generally skeptical of tax credits to businesses and I'd like to see them all eliminated were the government and everyday citizens to be empowered to fill in the gaps.
“Helping the Poor–Gratuitous Distribution of Coal by the City–Cherry Street,” New York City, 1877 Konczal's essay on the voluntarism fantasy of conservatives who argue that private charity used to operate.
Timothy Noah has a good run-down of wage theft in fast food and the role franchising plays in it: What’s unusual here aren’t the claims of labor law violations, which are common enough, but rather, who’s being blamed. The wall that fast food workers hope...
Paul Ryan, unfortunately the latest Irish-American politician to forget the roots of his people and become a right-winger, has had a very racist week. Blaming black people for inner-city conditions.
On March 18, 1970, postal workers around the nation went on strike. This illegal but pioneering strike of public sector workers not only forced the Nixon Administration to cave but.