Jane McAlevey excerpts from her new book of her decade as an organizer struggling against both corporations doing terrible things and the strategies of the labor leaders themselves. McAlevey talks of organizing against a decertification election at a for-profit hospital chain in Las Vegas. Pretty evil...
I have a mini-review up of Michael Klarman's fine new book on same-sex marriage and backlash. Despite my longtime skepticism about the focus on countermobilization and litigation and Klarman's greater.
Once again, large swaths of the Republican Party oppose international definitions of basic human rights: For the first time, the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) explicitly described family planning as a.
Ramblin', Gamblin' Bill Bennett: This was the drumbeat of the Obama campaign. To women they said: Republicans are waging a "war on women," trying to outlaw abortion and contraception and would take them back to their rights in the 1950s. To minorities they said: Republicans are...
If this doesn't get Americans interested in climate change, nothing will: A cup of morning coffee could be much harder to find, and much more expensive, before the century is.
Galtian Overlords look on helplessly: Nov 14 (Reuters) - Hostess Brands Inc said it would seek this week to liquidate the company unless enough workers stopped striking by the end.
Some valuable historical background to the Halappanavar case from Kieran Healy.
This month's Sidney Award went to Jina Moore for her excellent article on poverty in modern America. Asking what is poverty, Moore notes that no one can agree on it..
Building upon yesterday's discussion, Jaymi Heimbuch provides a really good roundup of the complexities of wild horses on the western range. For as legitimate as the reasons to want to.
It's the strangest thing. Taking a team that had zero quality offensive players not on their offensive line and adding nothing of interest but a shitty backup QB who would also be an immense distraction seemed like a great idea, but apparently it's not working. Odd....
Luke Russert, who replaces John Podhoretz as the most unqualified beneficiary of nepotism in American life today, actually told Nancy Pelosi in a press conference that she was too old.
Just so we're clear: Last month, a woman was admitted to a hospital in Galway, Ireland. She was 17 weeks pregnant with a wanted child. She was experiencing severe back.