I mentioned Richard White's The Organic Machine in an earlier post today, which is the best book I've ever read on the Columbia River, and a few days ago, I wrote about the battle to tear down the four Snake River dams that serve little purpose...
Aided by Father James Robinson, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., center, and John Lewis of the Voter Education Project, a crowd estimated by police.
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 is finding that abruptly reversing U.S. immigration policy is like turning around a battleship using the...
With Democrats moving toward finally creating a $15 minimum wage (though it won't happen in the relief bill), it's time to think about what this all means. I had the.
It's very possible: President Donald J. Trump was sicker with Covid-19 in October than publicly acknowledged at the time, with extremely depressed blood oxygen levels at one point and a.
Scott notes that, now that he's out of office, Donald Trump is facing a mountain of legal woes, both civil and criminal. (This CNN story fleshes out some of the details at greater length). Meanwhile there are some rumblings via Maggie Haberman that Trump is going...
A student at my school interviewed me about the book and managed to stump me on a question... give it a lesson if it's your thing...
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.
One interesting thing about the strange speech Mitch McConnell gave today observing that Donald Trump was guilty as hell but could not be convicted because of the newly discovered principle that presidents impeached during their term in office cannot be impeached after the fact (while blaming...
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,.
(1) Seven Republican votes to convict was very much a glass half full result. In an age of hyper-polarization, highlighted by the Republican base becoming nothing but lunatic fringe voters,.