I didn't comment on this yesterday because I was busy, among other things, doing media spots about it. But if you haven't seen Biden's speech in support of the Amazon workers, watch it. Workers in Alabama – and all across America – are voting on...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Israel Joshua Singer. Born in 1893 in Poland, Singer grew up in a strongly religious and intellectual family. His father was a rabbi. His brother.
This is the grave of Francis Pickens. Born in 1807 (though some claim 1805) in Togadoo, South Carolina, Pickens grew up at the pinnacle of the South Carolina elite slaveholding.
We've never watched a music video in this series. So let's change that with Run-DMC's "King of Rock." The funny about this is that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is such a bad museum that it's barely any better than the one portrayed...
Amazon’s new facility will be the single-largest private investment in the history of Bessemer, according to the town’s mayor. Jamelle Bouie had an excellent column the other day about the.
While I am skeptical that Democrats will really prioritize pro-labor bills before literally every other part of their agenda (hello Virginia legislature!), it's important that what is at the top.
There is so much conversation about racism in science and technology today because that very real history is leading to major policy impacts as people of color are volunteering for the COVID vaccine at far lower rates than whites, despite a year of their families...
This is the grave of Robert Cornelius. Born in Philadelphia in 1809, Cornelius grew up reasonably well off. His father was Dutch immigrant silversmith who opened a lamp manufacturing company..
In our last film club, we watched the ridiculous National Right to Work Committee film Women Must Weep, a laughable but horrifying piece of hackwork about a strike in Princeton,.
Pour one out for the memory of Prince Markie Dee of The Fat Boys, who died at the age of 52. I guess this was not a group of guys destined to live to 90, but it's still a big loss from a band that...
Naomi Klein's essay on why Texans have turned the Green New Deal into a monstrous specter of evil that will somehow destroy the libertarian paradise of their minds is well.
You may remember Andrew Sandoval-Strausz from our podcast a couple of months ago. He now has an essay in the Washington Post about how the Immigration Reform and Control Act.