The projected violence following the not guilty verdict in the Zimmerman Trial is coming to pass. Lester Chambers, a seventy-three year-old musician known for his work as a member of The Chambers Brothers, was assaulted on stage at a blues festival last night after he...
Author: Erik Loomis
In all the emphasis on factory conditions in Bangladesh's apparel trade, we've forgotten about the other major industrial hazard in the country--tearing apart decommissioned ships for domestic steel production. I've.
As always in the Sunshine State, justice was served tonight. For another example: Marissa Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in.
Gawker's series encouraging Wal-Mart employees to tell their own stories is both incredibly powerful and scaring the world's largest corporation. The last thing Wal-Mart wants is for workers to have a voice about the terrible labor practices of the company. Check it out.
Last week, BART workers went on strike, shutting down the region's major mass transit service for a few days. The strike has ended with what will ultimately be a victory.
David Horowitz's Frontpage Magazine: New York Jets fifth-round draft pick Oday Aboushi, the 22-year-old offensive lineman from the University of Virginia, is a physical freak. He's 6-foot-6 and weighs over.
I agree with Zoe Carpenter here. If President Obama is serious about fighting climate change through clamping down on coal, he has to deal with the coal industry's plans to export Powder River Basin coal to Asia through west coast ports. If the United States...
Color me shocked that a Republican as principled and upstanding as Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is as crooked as a bag of snakes.* You'd think McDonnell would have just waited.
In a world where Rand Paul, America's greatest defender of civil liberties, not only employs a key adviser with a sideline as the "Southern Avenger" but defends it as a.
Continuing with using this space as an opportunity to work out ideas of Oregon's Pay It Forward proposal for higher education, I offer two conflicting views of the idea. Dave Dayen at Alternet offers a piece framing the law as a model not only for...
I had missed this story at the time, but you need to read Michael Grabell's Sidney Award-winning article on temporary work in modern America. Essentially, there's an entire temporary work.
Mike Elk reports that the United Food and Commercial Workers are returning to the AFL-CIO after 8 years with the insurgent Change to Win coalition. While this is inside baseball.