It can't be stated often enough that slavery was inexorably tied with the rise of capitalism in the United States. Historian Walter Johnson: Without slavery, however, the survey maps of the General Land Office would have remained a sort of science-fiction plan for a society...
Author: Erik Loomis
A must-read story on the problems with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, focusing on glue poisoning in a North Carolina furniture factory. The article describes OSHA as "the watchdog.
When you rely on fully industrialized waterways for transportation, the effects of drought on industry that don't obviously rely on rain (like agriculture) can still be quite devastating. Such as.
The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 (also home to the Wounded Knee shootout between AIM and the FBI in 1973) is on the Pine Ridge Reservation. But not all reservation land is owned by Native Americans because of the allotment of Indian land under the...
A typically subtle Venezuelan state animation showing Hugo Chavez in heaven met by his revolutionary ancestors: The group includes Cuban Revolution leader Che Guevara, Latin American liberator Simón Bolívar, Argentine.
It really would be outrageous to pay NCAA players. It's not like they need it. He is also a product of the extreme poverty that grips millions of families across.
Florida Gulf Coast University has come to the nation's attention in the last week due to its 2 unlikely upsets in the NCAA Tournament. This attention has also caught the attention of reporters and environmental organizations, who have explored the sordid tale of its creation....
Turns out that if you industrialize an animal and then expose them to tremendous amounts of chemical pesticides, terrible things can happen. I know that the Green Revolution and our.
I know everyone is getting excited about the new season of Mad Men. The Onion's AV Club has a great article about 10 episodes that get to the depth of.
A great photo gallery of the vanishing towns of Montana, where just a few people hold on in isolated places. Or sometimes they disappear from the map entirely. The American West is full of these places. Driving around the West, you see isolated homes in...
Jonathan Rees on how MOOCs allow egocentric professors to drive others out of business while producing lower quality education and the corporate profits that drive the whole thing. In other.
I am very happy to see that President Obama named five new national monuments yesterday. Two are dedicated to preserving public lands--the San Juan Islands in Washington and the Rio.