An excellent Mark Bittman op-ed about the true cost of food upon those who produce it. Bittman talks about the fast-food strikes of the last few weeks and how only 1 worker has lost their job, which is interesting. Next week there are going to...
Author: Erik Loomis
I was a union organizer for awhile. Most of this was volunteer work, but I was pretty good at it and there were professionals who encouraged me to go into.
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is quite an intelligent man and a principled politician: In a lengthy and, at times, awkward and disjointed press conference, Gov. Pat McCrory said today.
Here's a Stereogum list of the 10 best Townes Van Zandt songs. I'll offer my own 10 best, which look pretty different. Between about 1997 and 2002 or so I was in a huge Van Zandt stage, which soon morphed into following Guy Clark, Joe...
This is from a couple of weeks ago and some of you might have seen it already, but this is an excellent roundup of the wages of global capitalism on.
The Yankees' acquisition of Alfonso Soriano is another sign that the team's ownership really has had trouble adjusting to the new reality that you have to develop from within in.
The true victims of police violence against protestors are always the cops. The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is appealing for worker’s compensation, claiming he suffered psychiatric injury from the 2011 confrontation. John Pike...
For reasons out of my control, half of my life is now traveling around seeing statues of virgins, which is especially exciting since I'm not a believer. Thus, I've seen.
In 2016, progressives will no doubt be immersed once again in the lovely debate over whether to vote for Hillary/Biden/Gillibrand/whoever* because of drones/Gitmo/something or whether they should instead vote for.
It's good to see the legions of unpaid interns at profit-generating companies organizing and fighting back against the theft of their labor.
Academics face increasing problems in dealing with academic publishing. This is especially true in the book-driven fields of history and anthropology, where because dissertations are now archived online, publishers don't.
Remarkable: In the Appalachian foothills of western North Carolina, archaeologists have discovered remains of a 16th century fort deep in the interior of what is now the United States. The.