Several readers recommended this Doug Henwood piece, which is sort of a leftier-than-thou version of Ezra Klein's fatalism, arguing that organized labor should cede the field of electoral politics. Henwood is generally worth reading, but I think this particular argument fails pretty badly. The central...
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Twilight Greenaway's piece entitled, "The Food Movement's Final Frontier: Taking Care of Workers," is a bit of a misnomer, since the food movement has a lot of frontiers to deal.
If you ever wanted to read FBI documents on training against so-called "ecoterrorism," now is your chance. This stuff is pretty disturbing since we see an ever expanding definition of "domestic terrorism" to include more and more activities that the left engages in. Meanwhile, right-wing...
I think this calls for a nice, quick lawsuit.
The great guitarist for Miles Davis' mid-70s bands has passed. Very sad. [SL]: A backhanded tribute to a great innovator: "Howlin' Wolf looked at me and he said 'Why don't.
What would a Netroots Nation convention be without a member of LGM representing it? Actually, it'd be like all the others because LGM hasn't ever had someone there before, I don't think. But I will be there starting tomorrow, thanks to it taking place a...
As with the previous Mad Men post, I'll begin here with the title ("Commissions and Fees") as it structures the underlying irony of the entire episode. As Lane Pryce explains to.
This time, it's Barbara Jones, a Clinton appointee to the District Court. It's based on a broader theory than last week's 1CA ruling, and hence is less likely to stand.
I disagree with the bottom line of Ezra Klein's analysis of the Wisconsin recall, but for somewhat different reasons than Erik and some other analysts I admire have expressed. I think that to read Klein's post as dismissive of or hostile to labor is erroneous,...
Dana Goldstein's latest column about youth unemployment is deeply problematic. Certainly youth unemployment is a gigantic problem. The new statistics showing that only 1/6 of recent high school graduates who.
A lot of coverage of Wisconsin, as one would expect. A few notes on this. First, David Gergen, anti-union hack. Ezra Klein's response was a bit frustrating. He discusses labor's.