Color me shocked that a Republican as principled and upstanding as Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is as crooked as a bag of snakes.* You'd think McDonnell would have just waited for the big grift until he was out of office and a lobbyist himself. *...
Author: Erik Loomis
In a world where Rand Paul, America's greatest defender of civil liberties, not only employs a key adviser with a sideline as the "Southern Avenger" but defends it as a.
Continuing with using this space as an opportunity to work out ideas of Oregon's Pay It Forward proposal for higher education, I offer two conflicting views of the idea. Dave.
I had missed this story at the time, but you need to read Michael Grabell's Sidney Award-winning article on temporary work in modern America. Essentially, there's an entire temporary work economy that has sprung up under our noses, even more so than I thought. Employers...
Mike Elk reports that the United Food and Commercial Workers are returning to the AFL-CIO after 8 years with the insurgent Change to Win coalition. While this is inside baseball.
Tomorrow, something called the Global Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety is set to release its plan to improve working conditions in Bangladesh following the April fire that killed more than.
The mining industry has always loved violent labor intimidation, armed thugs, paramilitary operations against unions, and other fun parts of the Gilded Age we once thought we had left behind us. But with the new Gilded Age upon us, mining companies are happy to go...
The Oregon legislature has passed its Pay It Forward bill, which creates an alternative model for funding higher education by students agreeing to pay a percentage of their post-graduation income.
Edmund Morgan, the seminal historian of colonial America, has died at the age of 97. One of the five most important historians of the period in American history, Morgan's books.
Jeff Guo has a good piece at The New Republic on how Michelle Rhee's StudentsLast First organization has centered on Tennessee to push its anti-teacher union agenda. Yet despite the massive amount of money it and its corporate supporters have poured into Tennessee politics, they...
In the aftermath of all the attention paid to corporations like McDonald's trying to recreate the Gilded Age through debit card "paychecks" that force workers to pay to get their.
Not even SEK can claim something like this, what with incredibly lame wingnut attempts at parody now including me as a central figure in their posts: We're having a giant.