This is the grave of Ralph Branca. Born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1926, Branca was the 15th of 17 children. He was the child of immigrants. His father was an Italian streetcar conductor and his mother a Jewish immigrant from what is today...
Author: Erik Loomis
The latest teacher strike wave is continuing, mostly notably in Chicago. Teachers in Dedham, Massachusetts just went on strike for 3 days and won most of their demands. I was.
On September 29, 1962, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced Operation Breadbasket, a boycott campaign against companies that refused to hire African-Americans. This was part of the larger civil rights.
Despite the right-wing narrative that climate scientists are ginning up their predictions of doom because they hate capitalism and America or something (seriously, I never understood why people would believe that climate activists and scientists want to be right--I'd love to be wrong about this!),...
This is the grave of Wernher von Braun. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was born in 1912 in Wirsitz, Germany. His father was Minister of Agriculture in one of.
FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008 file photo, British musician Ginger Baker performs at the 'Zildjian Drummers Achievement Awards' at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. The family.
There really wasn't any way around this. Freshman Rep. Katie Hill is resigning from Congress after facing allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with staffers in her office and on her congressional campaign, according to two Democratic sources. She’s set to resign by the end of...
Will Bunch on the protests in Chile and how they were caused by the same U.S. style neoliberalism that has also helped unhinge this nation. In 2019, as an autumn.
The ambitious plans that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have no real chance of passing the Senate and even if they do, the Supreme Court will kill them. They are.
This is the grave of Ralph Ellison. Born in 1914 in Oklahoma City, Ellison grew up without a father. See, African-Americans worked the most dangerous jobs at a time when all jobs were pretty unsafe. So not surprisingly, Ellison's dad died on the job in...
Lawrence "Larry" Summers, former U.S. Treasury secretary, speaks during a question-and-answer session with the media at a workshop hosted by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the Bank of Canada.
I was interviewed for a really great story at The American Prospect about a topic I hadn't actually thought about too much before this: the Communication Workers of America's culture.