A surprisingly harsh and direct article by Juliet Macur in the Times on the complete idiocy of stadium building for the World Cup. A lot of these new stadiums not only cost a ton of money, but they weren't even built in cities with functioning...
Author: Erik Loomis
Joseph Stiglitz is ending his The Great Divide series on the Times and in doing so notes that extreme economic inequality under capitalism is not inevitable, but rather a series.
Presumably Scott has renounced the Flames in favor of the Buffalo Sabres.
On June 27, 1905, at a convention in Chicago, the Industrial Workers of the World was founded. The IWW would play a major role in the industrial warfare of the early twentieth century, scare the employer class, and capture the imaginations of late 20th century...
Today's winner in stupid punditry goes to Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry for his piece about Vox and "the intellectual stagnation of the left." I'm not even going to address the idea that.
I'm not sure that I'm quite as pessimistic as labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about the early 21st century South. But he's certainly right about the attempt to reinstitute white supremacy..
All those liberals driving Priuses make big strong tough American white men feel threatened. So they typically have to bully others. In small towns across America, manly men are customizing their jacked-up diesel trucks to intentionally emit giant plumes of toxic smoke every time they...
The European companies seeking to improve factory conditions in Bangladesh are facing resistance from the factory owners who are heavily invested in the current system, politically powerful, and don't care.
On June 25, 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation, while flawed as almost all progressive legislation must be to pass.
Tuco survived that walk through the desert, but he couldn't live forever. Pretty close though. Eli Wallach has died at the age of 98.
Evidently the kids these days are best behaved in recent American history, avoiding the habits and mistakes their parents used to throw their lives away. I knew I was disappointed.
I mostly reject lazy "both parties are the same" rhetoric. But if it fits on one issue, it's education. Obama has long surrounded himself with Rheeists and now that some.