If Obama wins reelection, he's going to have a long list of holiday cards* to send out. Sure, he'll have all sorts of fundraisers to thank. He'll even give the normal lip service Democrats give to unions have their massive get out of the vote...
Author: Erik Loomis
Josh Fox, the maker of the documentary Gasland and whom one might call today's Ida Tarbell, was arrested today at the order of House Republicans during a hearing of the.
After another dumb climate change denial article in the Wall Street Journal last week, a group of climate scientists had enough. We need a lot more aggressive attacks like this.
A lot of interesting things under the radar right now: 1. It looks like Minnesota is going to have a right to work a person to death law on the ballot this fall. A right-wing legislator is introducing this bill. Republicans control both houses of...
The Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that poorly educated government workers make more than they would in the private sector. That's hardly surprising. What's equally unsurprising is that.
Although SOPA and PIPA were defeated for now, the corporate-government attack on file sharing continues unabated. Most significantly was the government shutdown of Megaupload a couple of weeks ago. Regardless.
Outstanding.
Tom Krazit at Paid Content has a piece up apologizing for Apple's exploitation of Chinese workers in the creation of its products. Krazit argues that Apple really can't do anything.
Very interesting Jeanette Winterson take on Henry Miller in the Times Book Review. I suppose my problem with Miller isn't that he was a misogynist per se. Philip Roth is.
The highly respected historian and radical Jesse Lemisch has taken the American Historical Association to task for its unwillingness to deal with the field's employment crisis. Lemisch compares the AHA's milquetoast market-speak to the lameness of Democratic Party solutions to the modern economic crisis. Both...
If there's one thing more frustrating to environmentalists than the reluctance of the government to subsidize clean energy production, I don't know what it is. Not only is it central.
I found the comment section on my bayou post of yesterday interesting for a couple of reasons, including that saving the marshes is an impossible task. This really is not.