Kleber Mendonca Filho is the great filmmaker of class in Brazil. Bacurau is one of the greatest eviscerations of class and the violence behind the rich in the current era, which is how it ended up on my list of best leftist films for The...
Author: Erik Loomis
Barney Frank was mostly a groundbreaking and pioneering congressman who happened to be gay and centered that in his public life. Dodd-Frank is one of the most important pieces of.
I have my own problems with NPR's news coverage--primarily that it has spent my whole life telling a liberal audience that they should listen to conservatives. But Republicans ending the.
This is the grave of Ray Price. Born in Peach, Texas in 1926, one of the greatest country singers to ever live and one of my personal favorite artists in American history, Noble Ray Price quickly decided to go by his middle name, the first...
Americans really, really, really hate AI. Especially young people, for whom this is just another plot by the old to ensure they can't live the American Dream. From the University.
This is the grave of Robert Browning. Born in 1812 in Camberwell, Surrey, England, Robert Browning was one of the critical literary figures of 19th century England and one I.
I used this image earlier today because it fit but also because I was watching Wall Street again. We hardly have to go over this film, but a few notes: No one has ever played a complete sleaze ball like Michael Douglas. He's the true...
I didn't have an obit for Mark Fuhrman. It's not that I forgot about him, I very much had not. But he was only 74 and I had no idea.
There is no question about it--Donald Trump is the single most powerful person in American political history. No one has ever had the ability to control a political party like.
Oregon is a blue state, but like a lot of blue states, it has a lot of voters, especially in its wealthier classes, who believe Republicans have a lot of good points on the economy. Meanwhile, because Oregon is just purple enough that if you...
This is the grave of William Rosecrans. Born in 1819 in Delaware County, Ohio, Rosecrans grew up in a middle-class environment, with a father who ran a tavern and store.
In the New Gilded Age, bias is not going back to Jim Crow voting patterns and a Plessy court. No, true bias is taxing the rich. Steven Roth, the chief.