I admit I've always found the fascination with Route 66 a bit perplexing, since it's really just another road that, outside of New Mexico, does not really go through our most fascinating landscape. Even in New Mexico, that's a less than compelling road as far...
Author: Erik Loomis
For a sizable faction of Republicans with significant electoral support, Obama's immigration executive order is tantamount to race war. And they are ready take up the fight to protect the.
Since we all know that a divided government is the answer to the problems of this nation, I present you the kind of commonsense bipartisan leadership that Americans are demanding..
K-Mart is forcing its employees to work on Thanksgiving or be fired: Jillian Fisher, who started a petition on Coworker.org asking Kmart to give her mother and other employees the flexibility to take the holiday off, surveyed 56 self-identified employees from more than 13 states....
I guess I'm not sure the last time senators openly threatened violent revolution against a presidential policy. Maybe during the civil rights movement. Certainly upon the election of Lincoln. And.
If you haven't read the Pro Publica report on Firestone funded Charles Taylor's extraordinarily violent takeover of Liberia in 1992, do so. Firestone served as a source of food, fuel,.
I trust you spent the week celebrating the 267th anniversary of the Boston Impressment Riot appropriately.
This piece argues that climate change could be the next gay marriage in terms of young Republicans supporting meaningful action on it while old Republicans hate the idea of even.
They are an endangered species, but there are a few capitalists who see the income inequality of the New Gilded Age as a threat to capitalism, as they should. One.
The California Attorney General's office opposed the release of inmates because the state wanted to use them as cheap firefighter labor. Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported that attorneys in Harris’ office had unsuccessfully argued in court that the state could not release the...
Sweatshop factories in California are making a non-zero amount of your clothes: Workers in the California garment industry are enduring poor working conditions and insufficient pay, the US Department of.
Jason Motlagh and Josh Eidelson have an excellent piece up on the horrors of the Bangladeshi leather industry. When you buy leather goods, where do you think the leather comes.