West Virginia turns 150 today. Forged in the rejection of treason in defense of slavery, the state developed into a medieval fiefdom of the coal industry with much of the nation's worst industrial violence, endemic poverty, and resource exploitation. Even as coal withdraws from the...
Author: Erik Loomis
In case you don't already know, today is National Martini Day. I assume you are celebrating appropriately. That not only means that you are drinking a martini, but that the.
Evidently, the New York Times now publishes political narratives that would make Politico blush. Because this John Harwood piece makes the argument that Obama's problems in states with old, white,.
Not many country artists left from that generation.
Paula Deen, a racist wistfully desiring black slaves.
A good bit of the left-wing criticism of President Obama partially misses the mark because it assumes a unilateral presidency where presidents can do what they want. On the other.
Pierce on Politico's latest attack on Nate Silver and crazy things like "math" and "standards of evidence." Bonus points for Jim Nabors reference.
An outstanding collection of old Dutch work safety posters. Of course I liked the timber mill one from 1940 best.
The state of Louisiana (and the voters themselves) have cut off funding for the last operating ferry in New Orleans. Big deal, right? Who takes the ferry anymore? The answer.
On June 16, 1918, the socialist leader and former head of the American Railway Union Eugene Debs gave a speech in Canton, Ohio, criticizing the United States' actions in World War I and urging resistance to the draft. Two weeks later, Debs was arrested under...
After yet another pitcher, this time Alex Cobb of Tampa Bay, goes down from a liner to the head, it's hardly unreasonable to say that pitchers need to wear helmets.
The West fertilizer plant disaster has faded from the headlines but that doesn't mean our national workplace inspection system has improved at all. On Thursday, a petrochemical plant exploded in.