Really fascinating analysis of the decline of car culture. I tend to believe it to be true, particularly among young people. And I don't think it's an ideological rejection of cars per se nor is it a response to climate change I don't think. Rather,...
Author: Erik Loomis
If you haven't read E.J. Graff's personal history of moving from a radical queer activist to "mainstream and married," you owe it to yourself to do so.
The problem with this article on the power that garment factory owners wield in Bangladeshi politics, making the prosecution of owners of factories where workers die almost impossible, is that.
Jim Hudson, who played a key role in the 1969 Super Bowl, has died of Parkinson's related-trauma, likely, as he believed, another victim of the NFL's casual and dismissive response to head injuries.
In a move pleasing to the AFL-CIO, the Obama Administration has taken what I think is an unprecedented step in suspending trade privileges for Bangladesh after the building collapse that.
The North Carolina legislature for another in a string of extremist laws that tear the state's once fairly robust safety net apart in order to appease plutocrat Art Pope: Starting.
I don't think we can bury the coal industry yet, but this article really suggests an industry on its last legs. Or dying from black lung perhaps. ...In case you want some more evidence on the sheer awfulness of the coal industry from the 19th...
Language is always changing. I find the organic transformation of language quite fascinating, even when it leads to new forms of language that drive some people crazy, like using the.
In our stories about racial oppression in the United States, Native Americans aren't forgotten, but the legal details of how the government have denied Native American rights usually are ignored..
The Family Research Council has called for a day of action on June 30 against same-sex marriage. They designed a really great logo for it. These people are so ready to come out of the closet, they can't help themselves. ....Once again, it's worth noting...
While I'm glad that Senate Democrats are fighting for a better bill that would lower student loan interest rates, Obama really left them hanging out to dry after proposing tying.
This is even stupider than the usual Republican paranoia. Evidently, Obama is trying to destroy the NFL--by planning to run ads during NFL games this fall explaining the details of.