"Can't Take No More," a 1980 film about workplace health and safety narrated by Studs Terkel is just incredible and very much worth watching, both for its footage of early 20th century workplaces as well as its discussion of contemporary issues and how OSHA empowered...
Author: Erik Loomis
Some of you are probably hanging out with friends today, what with it a nice August Saturday and all. See how many archaic words for genitalia you can drop in.
Jim Crow worked so well for race, applying its principles to separate the rich and poor makes total sense! A luxury high-rise apartment in Manhattan’s Upper West Side is set.
As we are seeing the likely end of Tim Tebow's football career, with the inevitable right-wing political career to follow, Tebow defenders are trying to figure out their lord and savior is so bad at football. Rather than admit that they have been wrong about...
We live in a golden age of mapping. First, we have this wonderful map showing the percentage of households in each county where English is not the first language. All.
I suppose it's good to know for sure that the CIA orchestrated the 1953 coup in Iran, overthrowing a democratically elected government and replacing it with a corrupt but oil-providing.
What motivates the NFL to get tough on head injuries? Nothing except to crack down on its media partners if they start reporting on those injuries. Because what's really important is not player health, but the bottom line. Pressure from the National Football League led...
Grifters gotta grift. And that's certainly true among North Carolina Republicans: Young Republicans who helped elect North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory have been rewarded with big salaries in his new.
I was in Pittsburgh for like 3 hours yesterday. What to do in the Steel City? I know, visit the grave of American supervillain Henry Clay Frick! This was a.
Yesterday was Trotsky Icepick Day and to commemorate it, The New Republic reprinted Edmund Wilson's 1933 article on him. Good stuff. It also helped me understand why Trotsky would agree to testify before HUAC.
This is super cool. Old news, but I didn't know about it and I assume most of you didn't either. Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions.
Doesn't this just make you feel confident that the Keystone XL pipeline won't lead to horrible oil spills? Of course, it's not like the pipeline will run through any land.