This is the grave of John Everett Millais. Born in 1829 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, Millais mostly grew up rich in Jersey, a place he truly loved. No one says that about New Jersey, so maybe Old Jersey is nicer or at least has less...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Randolph Bourne. Born in 1886 in Bloomfield, New Jersey, Bourne was disabled at birth. His mother had a very difficult birth and the doctor really.
In 2023, the Japanese film composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto died of cancer. Knowing he had a death sentence, he agreed to have his son the director Neo Sora, film.
Emotional labor is one of the most useful ideas to come out of labor scholars in the last 25 years (it may have been articulated earlier, I'm not sure, but it's gone mainstream since 2010 or so). It does such a great job explaining the...
Back in 2022, a small group of workers under the name Amazon Labor Union won a union election in an Amazon facility in New York. This one small victory, which.
This is the grave of Nathaniel Goodwin. Born in 1857 in Boston, Goodwin was an actor who first shows up in the record in 1874, when he got a part.
Game 4 was.......something. That was just about the craziest thing I've ever seen. New York fans are flooding San Antonio for this game. They might be a majority of the crowd. Can the Spurs win and push it to 6? I think they probably can...
It's probably worth noting before reading this piece that Switzerland enacted women's suffrage in....1971. About 9.1 million people live in Switzerland — approaching too many, for many Swiss people. On.
This is the grave of William Rand. Born in 1828 in Quincy, Massachusetts, Rand grew up in a religious household. His father was a minister. He grew up in the.
If there's one thing Donald Trump believes in, it's rich people breaking the law and getting away with it: Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, a Republican from West Virginia and...
I am spending the next six weeks in Argentina and Chile, theoretically learning Spanish, more likely sounding like an asshole to my teachers and fellow students. Prepare accordingly for posts.
This is the grave of Stephen Vincent Benét. Born in 1898 in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, Benét grew up pretty well off. His grandfather was a brigadier general in the Civil.