I was about to walk into a Whole Foods just outside Boulder this weekend when I noticed the t-shirt of a woman loading groceries into her truck. I couldn't quite make it out, so I waited ever so discreetly for her to return her shopping cart...
This is the grave of Charles Merriam. Born in 1874 in Hopkinton, Iowa, Merriam grew up in the relative elite of small-town Iowa, with his father a successful dry goods.
Since roughly 99% of COVID deaths in the USA in July so far were preventable -- the vaccines have now been available pretty much everywhere on a same-day basis for.
Michelle Goldberg observes that without the kind of investigative journalism by local newspapers being strangled to death by Google, Facebook, and private equity goons Epstein would probably be a free man today: At a news conference after Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking indictment, a reporter asked...
Since zero Republicans voted for Biden's fully refundable child tax credits and they will be very popular, the inevitable next step is to complain that campaigning on programs to help.
Standing Bear Good news for those of us who follow the history of major Euro-American institutions looting objects from tribal peoples around the world. And more importantly, good news for.
A friend of mine went to a major league baseball game last night -- the first live sports event he had attended in a year and a half -- and this happened: This was my first live sporting event since the Michigan-Maryland hoops game on 3/12/20....
Americans as a society hate cities, even as most of them live in a city. From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright and so many others, key thinkers about American.
This is the grave of the unidentified victims of the Windsor Hotel Fire. The Windsor Hotel opened on 5th Avenue and 47th Street in New York in 1873. It was.
Just one heck of a job here: The coronavirus is surging in Florida in ways not seen since the pandemic summer of 2020.The Florida Department of Health reported 45,604 new COVID-19 infections over the seven-day period between July 9 and July 15. That’s an average of...
Criterion Channel is running a series of arthouse animation for adults. I'm checking out some of it. I'm by no means an expert on animation, but some of this is.
We lost a true giant of justice yesterday. Gloria Richardson was not that well known anymore. But her role in the civil rights movement was transformative. In the early 1960s,.