Stephen Greenhouse on how American retailers like Wal-Mart and Gap are opposing proposed regulatory plans for factory conditions that produce clothing precisely because they might be legally binding and thus mean something. Now they probably aren't actually legally binding, thanks to our lovely Supreme Court,...
Author: Erik Loomis
Atheists need more Oklahoma tornado survivor Rebecca Vitsmun, less sexist jerks like Richard Dawkins.
ESPN is a great corporation. It is ungodly profitable. It creates a mere 43% of Disney's total operating income. Think about that. All of Disney, including Disneyland and everything else.
As I talked about yesterday, there's a 1-day strike today of non-unionized government contract workers who make low wages and who SEIU ultimately wants to organize. In ye olden days of the Gilded Age, the government would use federal troops to bust strikes. The Department...
I'm glad to know that our addiction to oil from politically difficult places will soon be matched by relying on Western Sahara, an area with a long-standing independence movement against.
Today, a one day strike is taking place among non-union, low-paid government workers, some of the nearly 2 million government workers making less than $12 an hour, which I think.
The greatest generation indeed: The soldiers who landed in Normandy on D-Day were greeted as liberators, but by the time American G.I.’s were headed back home in late 1945, many French citizens viewed them in a very different light. In the port city of Le...
I maintain that Waylon has the very best version of "I Recall a Gypsy Woman" and I'd be remiss in not mentioning that Don Williams had a big hit with.
Apple. I don't think it'd be unreasonable to seize Apple's assets until it came to a reasonable agreement on its tax bill.
Hardly surprising that the crack babies "epidemic" in the 1980s was based on poorly designed scientific studies and really was just another tool in white backlash tool box to blame black people for their own poverty and justify the war on some classes of people...
In 1971, the film Zachariah was released. I had never heard of it until last night, but it seems to be a weirdo western starring Don Johnson, Dick Van Patten,.
Jorge Rafael Videla, former dictator of Argentina, is dead, much to the benefit of the world. Lillie Langtry with more.