Author: Erik Loomis
Republicans believe in punishing the poor for their own poverty. Democrats do not. That is a fundamental difference between the parties and it's one of a million reasons why it.
This is the grave of James Cotton. Born in Tunica, Mississippi in 1935, Cotton was heavily influenced by the blues musicians a generation older than he in the Delta. He.
I am not one to dismiss the inflation of the 1970s as a very serious policy problem at the time. Obviously, anyone who lived through that is aware of it..
Wanted to recommend Will Bunch's recent piece on how ICE is the real deep state, resisting treating immigrants like humans no matter if Democrats are in power. So far, Biden.
This is the grave of Charles Drew. Born in 1904 in Washington, D.C., Drew grew up in a middle class Black family in the city. After high school, he went.
The great drummer Milford Graves has died. One of the most astounding jazz percussionists of the free jazz era, he also, like a lot of these guys from that generation,.
Someday, we are going to look back and realize that the early 21st century was both the period when universities stopped hiring history professors and the period where people were.
If you read one long piece today, make it Ryan Fontanilla's discussion of his time in the Coast Guard patrolling to ensure no Haitian migrants enter the nation and how.