Enjoy this 1940 Rural Electrification Administration documentary on the drudgery of rural work before electricity and how REA cooperatives and the New Deal transforms the lives of farmers. Good stuff. I love the films of the New Deal. There are also useful stories here. Robert...
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Anti-ACA fanaticism: hackery all the way down.
The voters of Kansas elected Sam Brownback governor. Then they reelected them. So now the reap what they sowed: The economic fallout continues in Kansas, where Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.
Building off the sociopathy of its founder, Steve Jobs, Apple is banning felons from working on constructing its buildings. It's nice that capitalists are judging the morals of the American working class while outsourcing production to facilities where conditions are so bad that workers jump...
Shorter Judy Miller: I'm not a liar, I'm a gullible rube and Bush administration lickspittle. There's a subtle difference! Very subtle.
Migrant workers in Germany are as routinely exploited as they are in the United States. Migrant workers in Germany’s construction industry are increasingly faced with abusive practices of this kind..
The White House blog has been shamelessly claiming how progressive and good for the American people the Trans-Pacific Partnership is. The other day, it sent out a message about how the TPP was good for environmental issues and included quotes from environmentalists who supported it....
Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton has a long history of substance abuse that nearly derailed his career. But he finally got it together. Of course, substance abuse and addiction are very.
I think the Endangered Species Act is really quite underrated in the history of transformative American legislation. Everyone knows about it on a basic level, but it's role in saving.
Steve Fraser excerpts some of his new book on what we can learn today from resistance in the Gilded Age in The Nation. A bit from his selection on the Knights of Labor: Like the Populist movement, it practically constituted an alternative social universe of...
Michael Simkovic thinks I don't understand how grant-funded research works. He also thinks I criticized him for failure to disclose that the S&M million-dollar degree articles were funded by Access.
Opposition to same sex marriage and RFRAs explicitly animated by and defended in terms of anti-gay animus: two independently bad arguments that go even worse together.