Wrote a piece earlier this month on the destruction of Force Z: Seventy five years ago, the Western Allies suffered a catastrophic defeat in the Pacific. Japanese aircraft devastated...
Month: December 2016
In writing about the horrors of child labor internationally, I frequently get people telling me that "these people are poor and all banning child labor does is take income away.
Yes, Democrats need to be extremely worried that the extremist tactics ending democracy in North Carolina are going to be applied nationally by Republicans in control of all levers of.
A dark year gets darker. I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, but the first movie retains a charm that hasn't faded for me. I also loved her in When Harry Met Sally. Damn.
I won't claim to have been a huge fan of the prematurely deceased icon, although I admired his craft and enjoyed some of his songs. Maura Johnston makes the case.
They're coming after George Ciccariello-Maher, for the crime of mocking White Nationalists. See Corey Robin for details. In.
Wrote a piece at TNI on potential areas for global crisis that might find themselves exacerbated in the near future: The Trump administration enters office in an...
I wonder why Wikileaks only published stuff that harmed Clinton? It is a deep and abiding mystery. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has offered guarded praise of Donald Trump,.
And thanks to Mitch McConnell's blockade, the neoconfederates are coming: Donald Trump is set to inherit an uncommon number of vacancies in the federal courts in addition to the open.
This is one of the many cats that live with my in laws. She's waiting for some foolish biped to touch the trigger spots on her belly. (Note the look of deranged anticipation in her eyes.) The dilemma: Having the skin ripped off an extremity...
This is the grave of Louisa May Alcott. Born in 1832 in Philadelphia, Alcott and her family that included her father Bronson Alcott moved to the transcendentalist center of Boston.
Over the summer, black bears showed up on University of Maryland's.