I rewatched Wes Anderson's 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox again and I have to say that it might be my very favorite of his films. Now, I get it if you don't like Anderson. It's an aesthetic alright and if it isn't yours, you probably...
Author: Erik Loomis
While this might not be as important as gutting Social Security, it's still pretty important. The future of a vast collection of public artwork is in doubt as the Trump.
National Labor Relations Board, located at 1099 14th Street, NW, in Washington, D.C. April 16, 2012. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL. With all the court victories against.
The excellent historian Lawrence Glickman reminds us that the Republican war on Social Security is by no means just an obsession of President Musk. Republicans have always hated Social Security and they still want it gone. The Gilded Age is their ideal and by God...
While RFK is making America healthy again by letting kids die of measles and making sure the only appropriate use of government spending is to investigate the "connections" between vaccines.
This is the grave of Little Richard. Born in 1932 in Macon, Georgia, Richard Penniman grew up in the complicated Saturday Night/Sunday Morning world of the South. In other words,.
Can you imagine this happening in a failed state like the United States? I mean, a murderous dictator getting arrested on an International Criminal Court warrant? Some were shot by vigilantes on motorbikes. Others had bullets in the head, execution style. In killing after killing,...
This is the grave of Big Bill Broonzy. Born possibly in 1893, but also possibly in 1903 (big discrepancy!), Lee Bradley was one of 17 children his parents had. He.
I'm not saying this is the best work Richard Pryor ever did, but his bit on working in a mob-owned club in Youngstown does include some outstanding impressions of those.
This sounds even worse than your regular radical commune, but a radical commune it very much is: For a project explicitly designed to influence Congress, Steve Berger’s operation has left a scant paper trail. The archconservative evangelical pastor, who started a D.C. nonprofit a few...
Harold Meyerson on Trump's outright war on public sector unions: In 1962, President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order giving collective-bargaining rights to federal employees, though they were not.
The Trump administration's basic goal on both economic and social issues is not only to return America to an imagined 1950s, but to an imagined 1890s. This Jim Crow Gilded.