Thomas Frank eviscerates the system of academic capitalism that is destroying higher education in the United States. There is so many wonderful excerpts to this essay, but I'll choose just one here: The disaster that the university has proceeded to inflict on the youth of...
Author: Erik Loomis
Some of you probably caught this last week, but the death of this intern is extremely disturbing: Serious concerns have been raised tonight about the punishing hours endured by interns.
Well, doesn't this just make you feel comfortable about the safety of our workplaces and our communities: A Dallas Morning News analysis of more than 750,000 federal records found pervasive.
Hmmm..... Things are looking up for Delaware’s Dogfish Head. Not only were recently voted America’s best craft brewery over at the Daily Meal, there are also murmurs that a sitcom is in the works based on the brewery’s founders, Sam and Mariah Calagione. The show...
Oh dear: A special spirit day at Oral Roberts University took a tragicomical turn last week when a bald eagle released into the school's Christ Chapel by a professional handler.
I'm sure the timber industry is glad it retook its historically appropriate title America's most dangerous job. An excerpt from my book manuscript draft, part of which explores the history.
Matt and I have had our share of arguments over how to create a better life for working people, but I mostly endorse his statement about Guaranteed Basic Income. The minimum wage typically gets debated in terms of econometric studies about disemployment impacts. But the...
Gabriel Winant's long-form book review of Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. A brief excerpt: People, too, suffered the violence of abstraction. Over.
The fact that Jefferson Davis played a role in giving the Civil War its name and that the name is a product of the losers writing the history of a.
Freshmen in the 15th century had it rough: "Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen. Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to offend with insult, torment, harass, drench with water or urine, throw on or defile with...
In a Democratic administration, OSHA makes alliances with women's groups to improve health and safety for women who work in construction. In a Republican administration, OSHA is controlled by industry.
The mining industry, conducting its usual anti-social, anti-environmental, and exploitative behavior, is pushing for new rules in New Mexico to escape having to go through a variance process to pollute.