This is the grave of Spencer Tracy. Born in 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tracy grew up fairly well off there. His mom came from money and his dad had a successful trucking business. But Tracy was a handful as a child, hated school, and his...
Author: Erik Loomis
Criterion has recently added the films of the pioneering director Youssef Chahine and I've checked a couple of them out. The best I've seen so far is the 1958 film.
The United Auto Workers are not messing around with Stellantis continuing to pretend like they don't have a serious union to deal with. The United Auto Workers’ rift with Stellantis.
Under Trump, this report would never even happen, so it's good that the Department of Labor has filed a report about the serious problem with forced and child labor in the global supply chains for the green energy transition. A new report from the Department of...
A top priority for a Harris administration needs to be stopping the outlaws on the 5th Circuit and the district courts including the guy who evidently just ruled the National.
This is the grave of Lionel & Diana Trilling, despite Diana not having a marker. Born in 1905 in Queens, Lionel Trilling grew up in an upwardly mobile Jewish household..
The Beast is the new film by Bertrand Bonnello. I hadn't seen any of his previous films, but I know he is respected in the French film world. It is conceptually audacious. It follows an unconsummated romance over three periods. It starts as an adaption...
I hardly need to make fun of these folks around here, but I've been going at it on Twitter with the kind of leftist idiots who are outraged that Republicans.
One of the long-term problems environmentalists have with making alliances with the labor movement is simply not caring that much about unions and what they need, nor what their non-union.
GGV- Growing up with that horrible father and all that fame and pressure, I cannot imagine how anyone survived it even semi-functional. Michael sure didn't. Tito seemed to mostly. It's also worth remembering how enormously important the Jackson 5 were to the 1970s and it...
This is the grave of George Weiss. Born in 1894 in New Haven, Connecticut, Weiss was a middle class kid. His family ran a grocery store. He was a great.
Listen, someone like Elon Musk openly wondering why Democrats aren't getting assassinated while also holding massive multi-billion dollar government security contracts is the inevitable wage of neoliberalism. The government can.