Say what you will about Jacques Vergès, but everyone deserves the best defense possible, even if it is Klaus Barbie or your long-time friend Pol Pot. If you've never seen Terror's Advocate, do so.
Author: Erik Loomis
This is pretty close to the most devastating critique I've ever read of a baseball player.
I'm not particularly comfortable with the idea of boycotting the Winter Olympics in Russia because of the nation's anti-gay laws. Mostly, I don't think it's fair to athletes to be.
Glad to see workers in China fighting back against their conditions of work at Foxconn. Of course, I'm sure that the computer industry will move the factory to Vietnam or Cambodia. After all, given the lack of profits made by Apple and Foxconn, there's no...
What's more important, Kiowa sacred spaces or the whims of a mining capitalist who wants to tear up a sacred Kiowa mountain in order to mine limestone? I think we.
The Philadelphia school system has decided to use a classic union-busting tactic: destroy seniority provisions: There's something about seniority that really rubs a lot of people the wrong way. It.
Shipbuilding corporation Signal International has some very special labor practices, policies that more corporations would emulate if they could get away it: The lawsuits allege that Signal and its agents defrauded guest workers out of millions of dollars in exorbitant "recruitment fees" and falsely promised...
I rather like this Lt. Col. Robert Bateman fellow who is blogging at Charles Pierce's place: A little more than a decade ago I was going through a divorce. It.
We need more of these parking contraptions.
I'm not much of a fan of the "crowdsourced discussion" model that Wonkblog uses here, but on the topic of whether fracking's proponents are not taking potential water contamination seriously enough, the answer is obviously yes. And by fracking proponents, I mean not only the...
Less than three months after Rahm Emanuel closed 50 Chicago public schools to bust the teachers union move resources around efficiently, the august mayor has issued a call for new.
The inevitable bad choice of the New Jersey Democratic electorate happened last night with the victory of Empty Suit Booker in the state's Senate primary. Soon to make us long.