While I'm not at all questioning the terrible state of infrastructure in the Philippines and how it costs the nation much productivity and thus money, but it's worth noting that the decaying infrastructure of the United States is also costing us a lot of money,...
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Once again, capital mobility is the biggest threat to modern labor.* Companies already outsourced much work from the United States, contributing to the decline of unions, the split between labor.
The always useful Executed Today reminds us of another lovely event in American history: On this date in 1902, two African-American U.S. Army privates were hanged before a crowd of.
Well, the US avoided any hurricanes this year so maybe things are going OK in the weather world, right? Oh dear. Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines at 4am local time today with winds near 195 mph, making it the strongest tropical cyclone to make...
One of my favorite things about American racism is that the nation's commitment to white supremacy has both encouraged imperialist wars of conquest and then horrifying the racial sensitivities of.
Rest in peace.I had the good fortune to meet President Aquino twice, once in 1996 and once in 1997. At the first meeting I was running the media equipment for.
Ross Douthat gets the ball rolling:These twists and turns make Iraq look less like either Vietnam or World War II — the analogies that politicians and pundits keep closest at hand — and more like an amalgamation of the Korean War and America’s McKinley-era counterinsurgency...