In just about the only good thing for progressives in this year's horror film of state legislation, all 11 ag-gag bills were defeated. Attempts by agribusiness to criminalize anyone taking footage of their operations went down to defeat. However, I am extremely pessimistic that we...
Author: Erik Loomis
Overseas, quite decisively. The above chart measures percentage growth in employment from U.S. multinational corporations both in the U.S. and abroad. Worldwide employment by U.S. multinational companies (MNCs) increased 1.5.
An outstanding obituary of the great Dennis Farina by Alex Pappademas. Farina is one of those people who had a fairly minor career in the big scheme of things, but.
I think it's time we draw a line in the sand on hipsterdom. This, from the Oregon Brewers Festival: Perhaps you’ve heard the tale already. Rogue Ales brewmaster John Maier discovered that the wild yeast growing in his beard could be cultivated to a state...
Since SEK got so many good tips on his travel post, let me ask you all for some advice. Later this week, I have a 5 hour layover in San.
What a surprise that those supposedly "measuring" school success change their data for political convenience. Former Indiana and current Florida schools chief Tony Bennett built his national star by promising.
The Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 29, 1863, arguing that God would not allow the South to become like Mexico: The convulsion which is to cause a permanent disruption of the Federal Government and its division into Governments, embracing smaller areas of territory, is a Providential...
Despite our national culture of fearing cities and creating myths about rural America being the Heartland and such, living in a city is far safer than living in the countryside..
Last week, Barack Obama had a meeting with Vietnamese president Truong Tan Sang. After the meeting, Obama had some remarks about the relationship between Ho Chi Minh and American history:.
Read Josh Eidelson's piece on fast food strikes. Fast food workers in seven cities will engage in one-day strikes over the next 4 days, starting with New York today. Among other things, they are arguing for a hike in the minimum wage to $15 an...
I just finished re-reading Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio for the first time in many years. While I've been in Mexico, I've reacquainted myself with the literature of the Gilded Age,.
I've spent July in southern Mexico. The region today is defined by immigration. Traveling to one of the towns my wife studies, way up in the Mixteca, an indigenous and.