Jake Rosenfeld has a good piece on the meanings of Missouri voters’ overwhelming rejection of the state’s right-to-work law. The decimation of organized labor in Missouri since the last ti
One of the biggest weaknesses of any constitutional amendment is that of the 13th Amendment, allowing for unpaid labor by prisoners. Whether its writers thought through the potential repercussions of
Sure, I guess this is good of the American citizens of O’Neill, Nebraska. In the hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided several workplaces in Nebraska, including a hydropo
This is the grave of Ephraim Bull. Born in 1806 in Boston, Bull was not destined for a life as an agricultural innovator. He was a city boy and was apprenticed to a goldbeater. I had to look up what t
The Trump of central Europe, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, acts like you would expect, like all the fascists do, when it comes to women. The number of students impacted by the ban is small–only 11 a
This is the future grave of B. Vithal Shetty. Yesterday, I wrote about what happens when you wander around cemeteries, seeing stories of interesting people. Well, sometimes you find yourself in cemete
This is the grave of Winston Edmunds. Sometimes, when you are wandering around a cemetery, you find a gravestone that speaks to you. This isn’t so common anymore, because in the mid-20th century
This is the grave of George Pullman. Born in Brocton, New York in 1831, Pullman’s father was a carpenter who achieved some renown for creating a machine to move buildings to different foundation