1. You like Canadian tar sands? Then you'll love domestic Utah tar sands, as Tara Lohan reports! 2. The EPA dropping a fracking study linking the practice to contaminated groundwater in Wyoming is just embarrassing and again suggests the one step forward, one step back...
Author: Erik Loomis
Forbes is a terrible magazine in general, but now that it is reviving the idea that the tariff was the real reason for the Civil War, it's adding bad history.
The historian of gay America, George Chauncey, with an excellent essay on the history behind the move toward gay marriage. In part: The lesbian and gay liberation movements of the.
Good that John McCain is so giddy about creating what he calls the most militarized border since the Berlin Wall with the immigration bill. I mean, that turned out pretty well for everyone, no?
Maybe so Lyndon. But it didn't last forever. Now we have to overcome again. John Lewis on what the Court decision means, stabbing the civil rights movement "in its very.
Kind of an unfortunate day for Obama's climate change speech, not that it is his fault. I'll distract my attention from my outrage at the overturning of a huge part.
It seems the Roberts Court also made a film expressing its views on American race relations and the proper order between the races. You can watch it below.
It's worth having an open thread just to express anger and frustration over our Plessy-nostalgic Supreme Court ruling the most important section of the most important piece of civil rights.
Not only does reasonable moderate Sam Alito show us that there is no difference between the two parties and elections don't matter and therefore because of Edward Snowden we should.
The labor historian Jefferson Cowie on why the government desperately needs to recommit to and strengthen the Fair Labor Standards Act: It’s true that we are in the middle of a seismic shift in the way we structure our work lives. Both workers and employers...
It doesn't really surprise me that the big whiskey corporations are doing such a good job of pivoting to the demand for higher quality hooch.* They have the preexisting capital.
There's a certain class of conservatives that love to blame postmodernism for everything. One of them is David Brooks, who blames it for the decline in the humanities: The humanist’s.