In an utterly unsurprising move, the AFL-CIO has started its own Super PAC. It intends to compete with the big corporate Super PACs, trying to use its considerable lobbying power to push for workers' rights. I only mention this because of my ambivalence about AFL-CIO...
Author: Erik Loomis
This Disunion piece on John C. Breckinridge was somewhat more charitable than I would have been for a man who more than almost anyone embraced committing treason to defend slavery..
Some items of note from the last week: 1. More than 90% of 62,000 United Food and Commercial Workers in southern California grocery stores voted to authorize a strike because.
Oh for Christ's sake: In another sensational attempt to draw attention to the plight of animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is planning to launch a porn site later this year. A spokeswoman for the group says the site will feature adult...
It seems that Rhode Island is losing access to several excellent beers: Earlier this year, three major craft brewers - Avery, Dogfish Head, and Great Divide - announced that they.
Verizon workers have called off their strike, the nation's largest in the past 4 years, after the company agreed to temporarily extend the contract and come back to the bargaining.
In what is being billed as the biggest act of climate change civil disobedience in history, a group of 70 environmental activists, including Bill McKibben and Dan Choi, are sitting-in near the White House and being arrested to protest the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline....
Rule #1 of sports broadcasting--always, always, always compare a player to someone of the same racial background. At Baseball Prospectus (not sure how much of this you can see without.
I don't even know if Jimmy Carter drinks alcohol, but this Tom Philpott piece on the struggles of the beer conglomerates to keep control over the market suggests that no.
It's been interesting watching how Wisconsin and Ohio have dealt with their individual union-busting Tea Party legislatures and governors. Wisconsin got all the press. In fact, I was pretty disappointed with the protests in Ohio--thousands came out, but they seemed to make little difference. They...
Scott of course is right about the Green Lantern theory of domestic politics. There's just no way Obama is going to will Ben Nelson or Olympia Snowe into supporting a.
I don't usually support vandalism, but there are exceptions to every rule. Pretty brave act in Cookeville, Tennessee.