This is the grave of Nina Gomer DuBois. Born in 1870 in Quincy, Illinois, Nina Gomer grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her father was a cook at a local hotel, just about the best job a Black man could get in that time, even...
Author: Erik Loomis
No words. No words at all. Newly-installed FBI Director Kash Patel, whose proclaimed plans to overhaul the nation's premier law enforcement agency have rattled many within the bureau, has proposed enhancing.
So today you aren't supposed to shop or something. The question is why? What is this going to do? This is the question everyone should be asking. Not because engaging.
Il Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella con Javier Gerardo Milei, Presidente della Repubblica Argentina (foto di Francesco Ammendola - Ufficio per la Stampa e la Comunicazione della Presidenza della Repubblica) I fully expect this kind of thing to be official U.S. policy by Tuesday: The...
Tonight, let's focus on one of Johnnie To's excellent Hong Kong gangster films, 2006's Exiled. For a film like this, the plot actually makes a lot of sense--there's a hit.
Well, after a very long time--7 years!!--I finally have the next book completed, edited, and ready to go out. Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice was very.
My disdain for fantasy lit is well-known and at least some of it has to do with the authoritarianism inherent to way too much of it. That has such an outsized impact on our politics because of the popularity of the genre, especially with the...
The environmental community has long mistrusted The Nature Conservancy, accusing it of selling out bigger values in order to save small parts of land and cozying up to the biggest.
We had a conversation yesterday about the terrible Democratic congressman Stephen Lynch, outraged that constituents would dare ask him to stand up to Donald Trump. Well, there are more than.
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...
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.