In the aftermath of all the attention paid to corporations like McDonald's trying to recreate the Gilded Age through debit card "paychecks" that force workers to pay to get their own money, companies have begun backing off. At least some McDonald's are now offering their...
Author: Erik Loomis
Not even SEK can claim something like this, what with incredibly lame wingnut attempts at parody now including me as a central figure in their posts: We're having a giant.
In 1939, the reprehensible Martin Dies, chair of the House Un-American Activities Committee, invited one Leon Trotsky to testify before his committee on the evils of Joseph Stalin (PDF in.
I've always dreamed of starting a grassroots campaign for Toronto Blue Jays reliever Steve Delabar for one reason or another. And now I have my chance. Of course, fans get to choose the final all-star. For some reason, all the attention this year is whether...
Doing a bit of travel writing on my month in Mexico for RI Future. Put up my first entry today on the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968 and the perils of.
In comments to the Pinochet post, somethingblue points us to the University of Denver honoring George W. Bush for "improving the human condition." Not surprisingly, some people at the university.
An amazing set of daguerreotypes and other early photographic images of the last American Revolution veterans.
The Wall Street Journal, openly pining for Augusto Pinochet: Mr. Obama also requested a review of U.S. aid to Egypt, but cutting that off now would be a mistake. Unpopular.
This one goes out to all of you who say that MOOCs are totally the equal of a real lecture class in terms of education quality: Michigan professor Gautam Kaul.
I'm in Oaxaca, Mexico for the month so I shouldn't care about the crazy weather in the United States so far this summer (the high today here was 75). But I can't help it. The weather is so insane in the U.S. Again. Climate change:...
Typical that a song as bad as the Star-Spangled Banner would have a neo-Confederate history. The section that favored the “Banner” was the South. By the 1920s when the newly.
Although I was under the impression that Pennsylvania had the stupidest liquor laws in the country, it turns out that Indiana is pretty competitive as well (although at least you.