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...
Author: Erik Loomis
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.
Tomorrow, something called the Global Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety is set to release its plan to improve working conditions in Bangladesh following the April fire that killed more than 1100 workers. Sounds great, right? We all want Bangladeshi worker safety improved! Nope. It turns...
The mining industry has always loved violent labor intimidation, armed thugs, paramilitary operations against unions, and other fun parts of the Gilded Age we once thought we had left behind.
The Oregon legislature has passed its Pay It Forward bill, which creates an alternative model for funding higher education by students agreeing to pay a percentage of their post-graduation income.
Edmund Morgan, the seminal historian of colonial America, has died at the age of 97. One of the five most important historians of the period in American history, Morgan's books helped shape the field in the second half of the twentieth century. Among his most...
Jeff Guo has a good piece at The New Republic on how Michelle Rhee's StudentsLast First organization has centered on Tennessee to push its anti-teacher union agenda. Yet despite the.
In the aftermath of all the attention paid to corporations like McDonald's trying to recreate the Gilded Age through debit card "paychecks" that force workers to pay to get their.
Not even SEK can claim something like this, what with incredibly lame wingnut attempts at parody now including me as a central figure in their posts: We're having a giant girlfriend unwrapping party at the Asexual Alliance this week, y'all ought to think about coming...
In 1939, the reprehensible Martin Dies, chair of the House Un-American Activities Committee, invited one Leon Trotsky to testify before his committee on the evils of Joseph Stalin (PDF in.
I've always dreamed of starting a grassroots campaign for Toronto Blue Jays reliever Steve Delabar for one reason or another. And now I have my chance. Of course, fans get.