A good rule of thumb about country music is that when the singer starts talking, something weird is about to happen. When it is about morality or politics, you know the song is a winner.
Author: Erik Loomis
If there's one thing this country needs, it's "smart" rifles that almost never miss no matter how inexperienced the shooter. I know that the first time some crazy person takes.
This is a story that won't get lasting attention because of the small number of dead workers, but following the death of 1127 garment workers in Bangladesh, we have another.
Ezra Klein sums up what the future will almost certainly say about the Obama Administration and these so-called scandals Republicans are so desperately clinging to like a piece of driftwood in the ocean: And yet, even if the scandals fade, the underlying problems might remain....
Myron Levin has just an outstanding report on how the power saw industry fights against implementing already existing technology that would reduce finger injuries from table saws to zero. In.
House Republicans are moving forward in their ultimate goal of entrenching poverty, passing a farm bill that slashes food stamps. Steve King talks of food stamps that "expand the dependency.
If there was a Hall of Fame for great songs, Tom T. Hall's "Pay No Attention to Alice" would be an obvious induction.
I've talked about both the history of the Dawes Act and the private ownership of the Wounded Knee Massacre site by someone who is threatening to develop it. Here's a.
Tom Philpott reports on a new job safety hazard developing in agriculture. The enormous manure piles on today's gargantuan hog farms are gurgling up explosive foam. This never really happened.
On Monday, a West Virginia gas facility exploded, injuring two workers. Luckily, neither have life-threatening injuries. So this story will fade into oblivion even faster than a fatal coal mine or fertilizer plant explosion. However, it should rivet our attention because it seems that OSHA...
When we think of terrible labor standards in the 21st century economy, we may very well think of Wal-Mart and for good reason. But the real villain in the international.
Andrew Sullivan defends Jason Richwine, not just because he was fired from the Heritage Foundation for writing a white supremacist dissertation, but on the merits on Richwine's arguments. Because white.