Glenn Greenwald is a profoundly dishonest person. In his article today, entitled "The Racism that Fuels the War on Terror," Greenwald uses me as an example of someone who gives cover to the war on terror. Here's the actual article I wrote which Greenwald uses...
Author: Erik Loomis
Who are the real friends of coal miners? Like in the timber wars of the 1980s, an exploitative industry and its lackey politicians have claimed that the industry looks out.
Now this is a Yankees move I can approve! The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels are closing in on a trade that would send outfielder Vernon Wells and.
Christopher Cameron has an interesting post at the U.S. Intellectual History blog about George Washington's growing abolitionism. Historians ignored this side of Washington for a very long time, but in recent years, they have paid increasing attention to it. Washington certainly benefited from slavery and...
If you haven't read Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita's Times editorial in support of gay marriage, do so. It's another of the growing examples of professional athletes pushing back against.
Jeffrey Pilcher, the noted historian of food in Mexico, has a new book placing Mexican food in a global context. When thinking of a nation's food, particularly one as laden.
I know you all, like myself, are celebrating Oregon's dominating victory over St. Louis to advance to the Sweet 16 where they will no doubt crush Louisville.* So if you haven't seen this NPR piece on Oregon forward and rebounding machine Arsalan Kazemi, I recommend...
On March 23, 1974, the Coalition of Labor Union Women formed. A nonprofit organization within the AFL-CIO, the CLUW seeks to improve the standing of women within the union movement,.
Pramila Jayapal makes a compelling case for the inherent sexism of the debate on immigration with very real consequences for immigrant women. There are a lot of undocumented women working.
One of the only ways American workers still take time back from their employers in a workplace where more and more is demanded of fewer and fewer employees is to watch the NCAA tournament. So consider slacking today and watching some hoops work to rule....
I wonder how the defenders of Rand Paul's paranoia about drone strikes attacking U.S. citizens feel about his bill to withdraw the United States from the United Nations? Paul appears.
Despite growing income inequality, American national mythology tells us we can get rich if we just work hard enough. The problem with this myth is that the empirical evidence does.