From Shop Floor to Statehouse

From Shop Floor to Statehouse

Ron Patenaude wears his heart not on his sleeve, but just below it. On his left arm is a tattoo reading “UAW Local 2322,” the labor union to which Patenaude has belonged for the past 12 years, the last six as president. On his right arm is another tattoo,...

Mayors Join Fight to Shift Trash Burden

Political support continues to grow for “enhanced producer responsibility”—a rather grand-sounding term for the notion of making corporations deal with the fallout from the products and packaging they send out into the marketplace, and, eventually,...

Imperium Watch: Faces of Facebook

Last year Facebook got some new faces—faces that everyone on the ubiquitous social network should know about because their influence on it has been growing. One is the face of Yuri Milner, a Russian with an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Lion and Tiger Meat, Oh, My I was shocked to hear that lion burgers are being served at a restaurant in Arizona. I was even more upset to hear that this isn’t something new or out of the ordinary. That this meat is considered game meat and is so easily...

Imperium Watch: Are the Unemployed Pawns?

With more and more people facing destitution as their unemployment benefits run out, the reasons Republicans have given for not extending those benefits in a timely way suggest that another set of reasons underlies the ones loudly voiced. Extending unemployment...