The explosion in temp work has happened because employers see it as a profitable way to exploit labor, getting rid of troublemakers, avoiding legal responsibility, and keeping wages and benefits to a minimum. This is an excellent story on temp workers in California lettuce fields--some...
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Elliot Rodger's failed pick-up artist buddies: just what you'd expect, alas. ...I think perhaps the most telling detail is the fact that George Sidini was referred to positively 17 times.
I can't read about Aaron Hernandez's "motive" for killing two people without "Atlantis" playing in my head: A spilled drink in a Boston nightclub led former New England Patriots tight.
Exene Cervenka is, inter alia, a UCSB troofer. I'm not sure Jackie Susann meant it that way...
On May 29, 1943, Norman Rockwell published a cover in the Saturday Evening Post of a woman working an industrial job. This cover represented the millions of women entering the.
One of my favorite movies of the aughts was the 2000 supernatural thriller, "What Lies Beneath," starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Peiffer. I just found everything about it compelling-- from.
I had meant to write about the unwillingness of foreign governments to step up to Ecuador's offer to not drill for oil in its rainforest if the international community would pay the country half its value. Of course the U.S., UK, China, etc., were not...
It's hardly surprising that the populations of democratic nations are now resisting hosting gigantic sporting events like the 2022 Winter Olympics. It's a tremendous waste of money that does little.
Jared Remy will be spending the rest of his life where he should be spending it, in prison. You will probably not be surprised that he used his statement to.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about yesterday's modestly encouraging Eighth Amendment case: The fact that someone as clearly mentally impaired as Hall had his death sentence upheld by the Florida courts is a grim illustration that using the IQ number as a...
In my last post I touched briefly on use of the phrase "the friend zone." Here's where I hate the term: Saying that women have put you in the friend.
A very useful primer from Jon Cohn on the forthcoming war over crucial new EPA regulations of carbon emissions. A particularly key point, addressing the specious claim that Obama is.