Daniel Gross' discussion of IWW Local 8, the iteration of the Wobblies on the Philadelphia docks during the 1910s is interesting, but it's a lot more problematic as a lesson that "could transform the labor movement," as the article's title states. Local 8 wasn't just...
Author: Erik Loomis
1950's "How to Lose What We Have" is first-rate capitalist propaganda precisely because it lacks anything even remotely approaching subtlety, unless you count its conflation of the New Deal with.
Leon Wieseltier asks the right question in his graduation speech at Brandeis: "Has there ever been a moment in American life when the humanities were cherished less, and has there.
I found Alec MacGillis' discussion of the new gun politics quite interesting. I'm not sure that we are seeing the death of the NRA here, but there's no question that continued support of background checks at gun shows is positive. From a political perspective, what's...
As we close another Decoration Day, we have David Blight with typically excellent stories about Civil War memory: But for the earliest and most remarkable Memorial Day, we must return.
Jonah Keri tells us something very exciting and that makes total sense for anyone who watches baseball: In fact, the Twins starters' inability to miss bats isn't just bad by.
Today, being Decoration Day, we remember the crushing of the slave-owning Confederacy by our brave pro-Union soldiers during the Civil War. Jamie Malanowski takes the opportunity to ask an important question: Why does the United States still have military bases named after those who committed...
Good advice. Date unknown, but early 20th century.
On May 26, 1937, United Auto Workers organizers, including future president Walter Reuther, walked toward the Ford Motor Company's giant River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan to hand out pro-union.
Ugh, ugh, ugh. President Obama held a private meeting with top national security journalists on Thursday afternoon following his national security policy address at the National Defense University in Washington, POLITICO has learned. Present at the meeting were Thomas Friedman, The New York Times columnist;...
This post on what each state should have as its state bird is much funnier and more worth reading than you'd expect.
The decline of wildlife along the Mekong River, and really in all of Southeast Asia, has reached crisis levels. Between widespread development and the Chinese desire to kill every mammal.