On January 17, 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, granting federal employees the right to collective bargaining for the first time. Full text here. This began the last great period of union growth in American history to the present. Public sector workers...
Author: Erik Loomis
If you live a city named Centralia, I recommend moving with all due speed before something terrible happens. Exhibit A: Centralia, Washington, home of the Centralia Massacre of 1919. Exhibit.
Nagisa Oshima, legendary Japanese director, RIP. Sorry that comments were closed for this post earlier, I actually just had to delete that post and start again. Or maybe I am.
Who says that right-to-work laws doesn't create new jobs? Look at Michigan for instance: Gov. Rick Snyder's administration is hiring an attorney to enforce the new right-to-work law who will be required to pay state bar association dues while enforcing a law making union dues...
President Obama is proposing quite an expansive set of gun control legislation. It's very impressive and it'll be interesting to see whether it can past. In a sense, this will.
The first known photograph of someone flipping off a camera in history. None other than legendary baseball pitcher and general rounder, Old Hoss Radbourn, Opening Day, 1886. @oldhossradbourn could not.
Colin with a good run-down of recent news about the quasi-coup that forced Fernando Lugo from power in Paraguay last year. It sounds like a combination of gratuitous police violence toward the poor that rightist elements in the legislature used to throw Lugo out of...
If you haven't seen David Brooks' syllabus for the class he's teaching at Yale this semester, entitled "The Humility Course," well, you are in for a treat. Here's a few.
Much credit to Seattle teachers at Garfield and Ballard High Schools for refusing to give a flawed standardized test to their students. Laura Clawson: The MAP appears to be a.
You thought McArdle was as low as The Atlantic could go? Oh no. Not even close. How about allowing Scientology to write a "Sponsor Content" that looks just like a news article but is in fact a self-written story about the awesomeness of Scientology leader...
Benjy Sarlin with a nice overview of how organized labor has shifted from a key anti-immigration force to one supporting immigration with great fervor. To be sure, there are a.
I thought this Post article on Michelle Rhee was going to be a total puff piece, but it at least presents some facts that show her claims are never backed.