One more Merle Haggard post is necessary to commemorate of the career of one of the greatest musical artists in American history. I wanted to share with you 10 songs I think are just outstanding. My list might be a little different tomorrow and these...
Author: Erik Loomis
Last weekend was the Organization of American Historians meeting in Providence and I was lucky enough to be asked to be on a roundtable titled "New Directions in American Socialism.".
Dayen: A favorite parlour game among the D.C. media is to ponder why Americans seem so angry this election season. Reporters drop themselves into primary states like Marlin Perkins in.
Normally, I avoid using the word "neoliberalism" whenever possible since people use it almost as irresponsibly as they use the term "genocide" to describe something they don't like. But of course neoliberalism has a meaning, which includes the privatization of public resources. That is part,...
This is a good piece dissecting the continued dominance of the suburban corporate campus in an age of climate change and higher desire for dense living. What makes this more.
Uber and Lyft run their whole model on assuming their "employees" are independent contractors, meaning that the companies get to rake in the profit without assuming most of the risks.
If you like diving, do it now because the coral reefs are going, going, gone. The damage off Kiritimati is part of a mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world, only the third on record and possibly the worst ever. Scientists believe that heat...
As I have said a few times here, the Republican reaction to the Bundy occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is to embrace their policy positions, if not their.
We are barely a week into the 2016 season but it's good that one tradition never dies, which is the Mariners scoring no runs for Felix Hernandez. A day after.
In Out of Sight, I discuss how consumers need to understand how their clothes are made and the tremendous costs of not knowing that information. Of course, much of this is because clothing production has been outsourced to the Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, El Salvador,...
Finally, a well-deserved pushback to the politics of the Hamilton musical is happening. The show does include one named black character, Sally Hemings, who appears in a quick cameo that.
The media's love affair with Paul Ryan: The Last Serious Republican grows by the day. I wonder what will happen when the granny-starver proves as vapid and hopeless for the.