'Years of Living Dangerously': The most important television series ever, by Laurence Lewis Watching the watchmen: A state-by-state look at 2014's attorney general elections, by Darth Jeff McCutcheon v. FEC: The 1% versus the .1%, by Dante Atkins Traditional news media must be made irrelevant if America is to succeed, by Egberto Willies Jonathan Chait's new form of hippie-punching: Playing the 'GOP are not racists' card, by Armando FDR, LBJ and BHO, by Ian Reifowitz Seeking justice: From Scottsboro to Central Park, by Denise Oliver Velez How gerrymandering has helped turn legislative elections into coronations, by Steve Singiser Money ≠ Speech, by Mark E Andersen
Watching the watchmen: A state-by-state look at 2014's attorney general elections, by Darth Jeff
McCutcheon v. FEC: The 1% versus the .1%, by Dante Atkins
Traditional news media must be made irrelevant if America is to succeed, by Egberto Willies
Jonathan Chait's new form of hippie-punching: Playing the 'GOP are not racists' card, by Armando
FDR, LBJ and BHO, by Ian Reifowitz
Seeking justice: From Scottsboro to Central Park, by Denise Oliver Velez
How gerrymandering has helped turn legislative elections into coronations, by Steve Singiser
Money ≠ Speech, by Mark E Andersen
The creativity of workplace managers to squeeze dollars from their lowest-paid employees is almost unlimited. According to a lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart and several of its contractors running its warehouses in Riverside County, the warehouses scrapped their hourly-pay system in 2001 in favor of a piece-rate system in which all the workers on a shift shared a set rate for every trailer they either completely loaded or unloaded. If they didn't finish the job, they got nothing.
According to a lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart and several of its contractors running its warehouses in Riverside County, the warehouses scrapped their hourly-pay system in 2001 in favor of a piece-rate system in which all the workers on a shift shared a set rate for every trailer they either completely loaded or unloaded.
If they didn't finish the job, they got nothing.
Security experts suspect the explosion was inside a vehicle, said Air Commodore Charles Otegbade, director of search and rescue operations. The bus station, 8 km (5 miles) southwest of central Abuja, serves Nyanya, a poor, ethnically and religiously mixed satellite town where many residents work in the city. [...] Boko Haram militants are increasingly targeting civilians they accuse of collaborating with the government or security forces.
Boko Haram militants are increasingly targeting civilians they accuse of collaborating with the government or security forces.
Saying “it’s so smoggy I could kill myself” may seem as flippant as uttering “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.” But it’s not. Four years ago, Asian researchers reported links between air pollution and suicide rates in South Korea; and between air pollution, asthma, and suicides in Taiwan. Now, University of Utah scientists say they have uncovered similar links in pollution-prone Salt Lake County. [...] Bakian and her colleagues found that the odds of committing suicide in the county spiked 20 percent following three days of high nitrogen dioxide pollution—which is produced when fossil fuels are burned and after fertilizer is applied to fields.
But it’s not.
Four years ago, Asian researchers reported links between air pollution and suicide rates in South Korea; and between air pollution, asthma, and suicides in Taiwan. Now, University of Utah scientists say they have uncovered similar links in pollution-prone Salt Lake County. [...]
Bakian and her colleagues found that the odds of committing suicide in the county spiked 20 percent following three days of high nitrogen dioxide pollution—which is produced when fossil fuels are burned and after fertilizer is applied to fields.
The decision of the Obama administration and the resolution passed by Congress barring entry to Iran’s designated ambassador to the United Nations has angered Tehran and provoked demonstrations in Iran. Hamid Aboutalebi has served as ambassador to several European countries. He is accused by Washington politicians of having participated in the taking of US diplomats hostage in 1979-81. Aboutalebi says that he was not among the militants who took the hostages, but rather later on agreed to serve as a translator for the group. [...] In 1973-77, [Richard] Helms was sent by the Nixon administration to be ambassador to Iran. Sending a career CIA operative and former director of that organization as diplomatic envoy to the country where the CIA had destroyed democracy was a huge slap in the face of the Iranian people, and they knew it.
In 1973-77, [Richard] Helms was sent by the Nixon administration to be ambassador to Iran. Sending a career CIA operative and former director of that organization as diplomatic envoy to the country where the CIA had destroyed democracy was a huge slap in the face of the Iranian people, and they knew it.