Mostly, this is a good rundown of reactions to the Harris decision. In particular the piece by Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein and the Joshua Freeman essay get at one key issue--that the work of women and especially poor women is consistently undervalued in our...
Author: Erik Loomis
The whites of Murrieta, California sure know how to celebrate July 4. They kick it old school, through expressions of white supremacy. MURRIETA, Calif. — Suddenly, this city in the.
This July 4, remember the true cost of freedom: These wild, towering conflagrations garnered support at the beginning of the twentieth century from an unlikely quarter: the national movement for.
I mostly hate the whole Star Wars series and am generally disinterested in science fiction. But as a man of a certain generation, I have of course seen all the original Star Wars movies, for better and worse. So Hardware Wars, which I don't doubt...
Life for a reality TV writer is pretty tough since they have been classified as independent contractors or overtime-exempt and thus can be exploited heavily. The Writers' Guild is trying.
Who could have guessed that the Hobby Lobby case would lead to religious groups citing their right to discriminate against groups they think Jesus doesn't like? Oh yeah, pretty much.
I'm not sure if this is code for "black" or code for "sluts." Probably both. Single women are "Beyonce voters" who depend on the government in lieu of husbands to provide their birth control, according to one Fox News panelist. Jesse Watters made the comment...
Americans at their finest here: Three buses carrying 140 undocumented immigrants are heading back to San Diego County after being met by angry protesters at the Murrieta Border Patrol facility.
Few pieces that you should be reading about yesterday's terrible Supreme Court decisions. First, Sarah Jaffe on how the two cases are interlocking: We've long known that low-wage workers have.
Remember the Congo.
Rebecca Onion's latest Slate Vault piece is typically good, about pollution in the 19th century Thames River. She suggests reading this link at your own risk if you really like.
While today's pair of horrible decisions might seem like distinct issues, in fact they are both part of a larger war on women and workers. The absurdity of the Hobby.