Connor Friedersdorf writes the kind of political essay I can't see anyone but a privileged white person writing. Going as far as to nearly (but not quite he says!) compare President Obama to an apologist for slavery, he can't stomach voting for Obama because of...
Author: Erik Loomis
The Republicans might as well fight tooth and nail for Todd Akin's bid to become a senator from Missouri. It's not like a sizable percentage of Republican politicians and activists.
It certainly seems to me that a huge percentage of our leaders, whether in business, politics, university presidents, or whatnot are former fraternity members. Theoretically sorority members too, but who.
Wendy Lyon with an interesting piece about the Irish labor movement explicitly excluding sex workers from its definition of labor. It's hardly surprising, both within the Irish context of discomfort over such matters and within labor writ large excluding those outside of "respectable" forms of...
Clearly we should continue to allow private investors to determine the price of resources that the world needs to survive: It's probably not uncommon for City traders to wonder how.
I love the Seattle Seahawks. But they just won the worst refereed game in the history of the National Football League. After bogus call after bogus call, affecting both teams.
When workers are rioting because their lives are so awful that there's absolutely nothing to lose, it's pretty bloody awful. Let's just hope international pressure continues to push Apple to "work with Foxconn" to improve conditions. After all, what power does one of the world's...
It's really hard to overstate the awesomeness of NFL Films. Steve Sabol was a genius. RIP.
Sometimes, it's hard for me to write about environmental issues because it makes me want to cry. One example is white nose syndrome, a fungus that is devastating the bat.
Paul Ryan once was good on an issue--stopping the idiocy of the Cuban embargo. But now, since his party needs to pander to a disappearing number of disproportionally powerful aging right-wing Cuban exiles in Miami in order to win a swing state, Ryan has "learned"...
This is pathetic: Barring a burst of productivity in the lame-duck session in November and December, the 112th Congress is set to enter the Congressional record books as the least.
On September 22, 1946, the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural & Allied Workers of America (FTA) reached a contract agreement with the Piedmont Tobacco Company, marking an early victory in the CIO's.