House Republicans are moving forward in their ultimate goal of entrenching poverty, passing a farm bill that slashes food stamps. Steve King talks of food stamps that "expand the dependency class," words that could have come out of the mouth of any bog standard Gilded...
Author: Erik Loomis
If there was a Hall of Fame for great songs, Tom T. Hall's "Pay No Attention to Alice" would be an obvious induction.
I've talked about both the history of the Dawes Act and the private ownership of the Wounded Knee Massacre site by someone who is threatening to develop it. Here's a.
Tom Philpott reports on a new job safety hazard developing in agriculture. The enormous manure piles on today's gargantuan hog farms are gurgling up explosive foam. This never really happened before 2009, but it is an increasingly common occurrence on industrial-scale hog farms. The problem...
On Monday, a West Virginia gas facility exploded, injuring two workers. Luckily, neither have life-threatening injuries. So this story will fade into oblivion even faster than a fatal coal mine.
When we think of terrible labor standards in the 21st century economy, we may very well think of Wal-Mart and for good reason. But the real villain in the international.
Andrew Sullivan defends Jason Richwine, not just because he was fired from the Heritage Foundation for writing a white supremacist dissertation, but on the merits on Richwine's arguments. Because white people are poodles and black people are beagles: Of course not. We remain the same...
If there's one thing this country needs, it is more guns in our schools. Nothing bad will ever happen!! According to KMGH-TV, a school employee who also has a second.
Pretty big environmental and agricultural news out of Tennessee. Governor Bill Haslam, who is generally terrible on everything, has vetoed a so-called "ag-gag" bill, which would have criminalized whistleblowing and.
I am highly skeptical of the real motives here, but I am glad Wal-Mart is publicly calling for improved worker safety in Bangladesh. That said, it's pretty clear that a) Wal-Mart could play a far more active role in the conditions of the workers who...
Kutztown University in Pennsylvania has decided to allow guns on its campus. This is a terrible move, but this isn't the reason for the post. Rather, it's the vitriol anyone.
While The New Yorker runs a lengthy piece on the (mostly) awesomeness of MOOCs from a classically technologically fetishist standpoint (although it at least does present the objections to them),.