Pierce pretty much sums up my feelings about Obama's clear support for the Keystone XL pipeline and the broader failure of this nation to do anything at all about climate change: This is the argument we get from the oil companies, the extraction industries, and...
Author: Erik Loomis
Like many school districts, Attleboro, Massachusetts privatized its school meals, hiring the Whitsons Culinary Group. Then this happened: Students at an Attleboro, Massachusetts, middle school went hungry this week, if.
Republican extremism and a complete unwillingness to deal with the Kenyan usurper is the one thing keeping us from cuts to Social Security: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s proposed.
Rutgers fires abusive and homophobic basketball coach not when it finds out about his disturbing rants against players. Rather, it fires him only after the story becomes national and gives Rutgers sports a bad name. Because the latter is what's really important. Also what is...
North Carolina Republicans have filed a bill establishing a state religion of North Carolina that combines ignoring the 1st Amendment with nullification: SECTION 1. The North Carolina General Assembly asserts.
I'd always wondered why rain smelled so good after a dry period. I first noticed this in the summer growing up in Oregon, when it doesn't rain. Then in September.
Will be in Toronto conferencing later this week. I know nothing about this place except for a) the Blue Jays and b) I get to pay with stuff in some form of currency called a "loonie." Other than indulging my fantasies of a United States...
Free agency in baseball is basically dead, at least for high-end players. Players' current teams are buying the best players out of free agency with long-term deals that will keep.
I am really skeptical of guestworker programs doing anything other than providing a structure to exploit vulnerable workers. The history of guestworker programs is basically terrible and the present isn't.
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...
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.