Is Wong Kar-Wai's 2000 film In the Mood for Love the perfect movie? I mean, it has as good a claim as any. It's not only his best film, it's one of the greatest films ever made. It is completely pitch perfect. There's the astounding...
Author: Erik Loomis
I'm on record for having some contempt over the constant whining about the media we see around here and other liberal spaces. My friends, the people who own these things.
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, of Sweden, addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) Just whistling past.
One of the ways in which Democrats joined Republicans in creating the current crisis is through investing heavily in neoliberal privatization of public goods. That goes back to the Carter administration and every Democrat since has gone all-in on this, even Joe Biden. It wasn't...
Some of our electeds are up to the challenge of Trump. Many are not. One of them who really sucks and has for a long time is Stephen Lynch, the.
One thing every single Democrat needs to get behind are project labor agreements, which mean that union labor is used for building state projects. This exists in Rhode Island and.
I hadn't seen Mario Monicelli's 1963 film The Organizer in years. I remembered loving it but hadn't seen since I initially watched it. And yeah, it's great. Starring Marcello Mastroianni as a high school teacher and unionist on the run who helps organized a ragtag...
I don't know what choice Zelensky really had here but this is some bad bad stuff. But I will say this--basing American foreign policy on the principles United Fruit used.
This seems suboptimal: The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it would start handpicking which media outlets were allowed to participate in the presidential press pool, the small, rotating group.
This is the grave of Ralph Carr. Born in 1887 in Rosita, Colorado, Carr grew up in the mining town of Cripple Creek during its heyday as a gold rush town. He graduated from high school there in 1905 and then went to the University...
For blog-based reasons that will become clear soon enough, I had reason to go back and watch some of Terrence Malick's films. Badlands and The Thin Red Line are big.
When I make my points that the Trump administration is trying to recreate the Gilded Age rather than Nazi Germany, one of the areas where this most makes sense is.