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Author: Erik Loomis

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The coal companies are using their traditional power in West Virginia to roll back state health and safety regulations at the same time the federal government is citing them for gross health and safety violations. Not that the companies really care since the penalties even...
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Gawker Unionization

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On April 20, 2015
I suppose I should say something about Gawker's decision to unionize and the CEO's seeming decision to let it happen. I don't have all that much real insight to have. The site has been excellent on labor issues for some time. It should be said...
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The Three-Fifths Compromise

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On April 20, 2015
As this essay suggests, the Three-Fifths Compromise was a terrible deal for the North from the very beginning and would establish that slaveholders would use their slaves to make money and go the mat to enforce the return of their property, but then would say...

Ochs

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On April 19, 2015

This is a pretty intense story about how Phil Ochs was caught up in the repression of artists and leftists in Latin America in the early 1970s and how closely.

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