The stereotype is that unions oppose any action to fight climate change. Certainly that's true for some unions, especially the Laborers and United Mine Workers. But it is not true for all unions. In fact, like most issues, organized labor is divided over climate change. That...
It might be a laughable and inevitable failure at influencing American politics, but in terms of separating suckers from their money NoLabelsAmericansElectUnityFriedmanForever is working out perfectly well. I'm pretty.
Hobby Lobby puts its pro-life, pro-child policies into practice: When a very pregnant Felicia Allen applied for medical leave from her job at Hobby Lobby three years ago, one might.
5CA holds what should be obvious -- Mississippi's most recent anti-abortion statutes violate a woman's reproductive rights: Mississippi’s last abortion clinic won a major victory at the conservative 5th Circuit of Appeals, which said a law intended to make the state “abortion-free” and close the clinic was...
Your World War I graphic of the day: A couple thoughts: The Western Front and the Isonzo Front give an incomplete understanding of the static nature of World War I.
Count Jonathan Chait among the long-time supporters of Israel depressed about the nation's dead-end stance toward Gaza: The story further reveals that Netanyahu appeared on several occasions to approach the.
Big news for workers' rights today. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled McDonald's a "joint employer." This basically invalidates the claim used by fast food corporations that franchise out the stores that they are not responsible for what happens to the workers. Of course this...
What is life like inside the immigrant detention centers the U.S. has set up to house the thousands of migrants fleeing Central American gang and drug violence? I went down.
Josh Blackman offers another attempt to argue that Congress actually intended the federal exchanges the ACA established not to work. Inevitably, it's transparently wrong because like many ideological opponents of.
One of the endless series of ad hoc legal challenges to the ACA is an argument (touted by, among others, syndicated columnist William F. George) that the ACA is unconstitutional because it violated the Origination Clause (which requires "Bills for raising Revenue" to originate in the...
You've probably heard about the latest horribly botched execution: Wood’s execution dragged on for so long that at the midpoint, his lawyers filed an emergency appeal to stop the procedure.
I'm not saying this is on the level of LBJ ordering pants, but Richard Nixon talking about panda mating patterns is not something you expected to hear when you woke.