Fast food workers fighting for $15 an hour took pictures of their homes to publicize what their life is like. Powerful stuff.
Author: Erik Loomis
One thing I have discussed over and over again here is how progressives focus so strongly on politicians as part of a moral universe that must be adhered to in.
On May 18, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Tennessee Valley Authority as a centerpiece to his New Deal. The TVA would have both short and long-term impacts on.
Well, this is it. I have to say that after Season 6, I was really down on the show, but both halves of Season 7 have been excellent. My prediction, which no doubt will be proven wrong shortly, is that the final episode consists of...
I am really hesitant to believe too strongly in demographic factors as the key issue in an election, largely because there are so many variables and because it creates a.
Karen Piper has written a powerful book about how water privatization threatens people around the world. Connecting the subject to the world's colonial past, she demonstrates how a handful of.
Adam Arenson and Virginia Scharff, who was my dissertation advisor, on the end of the Civil War in the West: But looking at the war from the West is an important perspective. From the West, the Civil War appeared as merely the greatest in a...
We could use a president who has fostered local punk scenes.
Why do Republicans hate the humanities and want to turn institutions of higher education into nothing more than training schools for employers? The story of Ivy Ziedrich, now famous for.
John Boehner may think discussing Amtrak funding in the wake of the crash is "stupid" but of course it isn't. Boehner notes that the crash was caused by the train going too fast, not infrastructure. But it's not like high-speed trains are unknown in the...
Another horrible disaster in the global apparel industry. This time it was in the Philippines where at least 72 are dead after a fire burned a slipper factory. There might.
National borders are usually pretty weird and unsettling places. But the story of the India-Bangladesh border is especially odd.