Wow, yet another film about work. Shocking I know. This is part of a 1978 BBC series looking at a week in the life of various groups of people in the nation. This is from steel workers in a Scottish iron factory. I understand more...
Author: Erik Loomis
This photo essay of hunger in New York is a powerful document to what this all has really meant for the poor. I may not be living my best life.
One of the Trump administration's most grotesque early moves was to eviscerate the Utah national monuments, both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears. If Biden is elected, he will almost certainly.
The U.S. most certainly has a lot of problematic statues. But so does Latin America and that reflects the history of racism and genocide just as profound there as here. Moreover, the cultural politics over these things are also rife with dissension. After all, Jair...
This is the grave of Henry and Eliza Spalding. Henry Spalding was born in 1803 in Bath, New York. He ended up out in Ohio and went to college a.
John Zorn writes in the Times on the late, great Ennio Morricone, arguing that he was one of the greatest composers of all-time, period. You don't have to convince me..
This is quite remarkable. There were 32 million adults living with their parents or grandparents in April, the highest number on record. Appears driven by both closure of college campuses & poor economic conditionshttps://t.co/AVhIZzjS1y pic.twitter.com/hF1cr7ARUY — Catherine Rampell (@crampell) July 5, 2020 Obviously on the...
The entire history of supposedly "non-lethal" police technologies is one for which we need greater understanding. What are these technologies really, how did they develop, and how has supposedly non-lethal.
One of the biggest problems we face in our national conversation about race has been front and center of late. It's that we speak of it as almost an exclusively.
As we deal with our racist past and the white supremacist statues across the country, things start getting difficult when we move beyond those who have obvious consensus as horrible people, such as traitors in defense of slavery. One of those is Thomas Jefferson. This...
Tonight's film is 1893's "Blacksmith Scene," which I believe is the first film recording of work in history. Of course it is staged work, but still. It's an interesting minute.
Republican governance ladies and gentlemen! Alabama state Sen. Del Marsh (R), who serves as the Senate’s President Pro Tempore, tried to make the claim on Thursday that the astounding increase.