Boy do liberals want to think so. Paul Waldman makes the case here: The MAGA movement has always been defined by faith and loyalty: Faith in Donald Trump and his power to remake the world, and loyalty toward him in all things, even when his...
Author: Erik Loomis
Last night, I watched the 2018 Naoko Yamada directed anime, Liz and the Blue Bird. It's a very obvious metaphor about two high school girls. One is social, one is.
What Mamdani does with New York's public sector unions will be an interesting test of his administration style. He's pro-worker, but any mayor inherently has to juggle a lot of.
Bill McKibben notes that Trump is doing to America what right-wing evangelicalism did to American Christianity. Whole thing is very much worth your time. Here's an excerpt: Trumpism’s most revealing and defining moments – not its most important, nor cruelest, nor most dangerous, nor stupidest,...
I sure hope everyone is enjoying the worst food day of the American year. Let's review: Turkey is dry meat and the modifications of the animal to create Dolly Partonesque.
You know really deserves a hit piece? Charles Grassley, who has slipped under the radar for years, with his horrors being largely ignored even as he embraced Trump like almost.
Donald Trump continues to show his amazing business genius, doubling down on trying to end international tourism in America through drastically hiking entrance fees into national parks for tourists. Foreign tourists visiting popular US national parks like the Grand Canyon and Yosemite will need to...
As I stated yesterday, I basically hate everything about what the world has become in my lifetime, both politically and culturally. I've wondered what it would be like for the.
Although I am very political person and a cranky man who will say what is on my mind, I've never gotten in trouble for political statements in the classroom, even.
This is the grave of Oliver LaFarge. Born in New York City in 1901, Oliver Hazard Perry LaFarge was a rich northeastern elite. His father was a major Beaux-Arts architect and he mostly grew up in Newport, Rhode Island, home of the richest of the...
This is the grave of Edward Lansdale. Born in 1908 in Detroit, Landsale didn't grow up super wealthy. He put himself through college, first at Michigan and then at UCLA,.
The historiography of the Black Panthers at first was very critical of them. This was largely written by middle class people who valorized the mainline civil rights movement and thought.