A verdict has been reached in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, and is about to be announced. ETA: I was very pessimistic about all this yesterday, but given the speed of the verdict I've done a 180 and would be...
I follow European club football only casually, so this post is designed primarily to start a conversation among the more knowledgeable about what seems like a truly fascinating attempt by.
If you are the dealer, I'm out of the game: Political journalist Mark Halperin, whose career crumbled in 2017 after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment, has joined No Labels, a.
Look, if there's one thing that unites Oregonians, it's that they really just want to be part of Idaho. Wonkette is of course hilarious about this: An Oregon dude who thinks it would make a lot of sense to peel off three-quarters of the state and...
In this image from video, former Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, former South Bend Mayor Pete.
Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision banning school segregation. Courtesy of Library of.
DENVER, CO - MAY 30: Braxton Robertson pleads with the police during a protest after the killing of George Floyd – the Minneapolis man, who was killed by an officer, while being detained – in downtown Denver on Saturday, May 30, 2020. Thousands gathered to protest...
Here's some interesting data on changes in existing single family home prices since the early 1950s (Note that these data are medians not means, and they are for existing single.
181209-N-LM768-6258.BATH, Maine (Dec. 9, 2018) Following a multi-day process that includes moving the ship from the land level facility to the dry dock, the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG.
On April 20, 1946, the International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America (IFAWA) Local 46, a communist led union of largely Native Alaskans, walked off the job to demand wage increases, shorter workdays, and the closed shop. Working in solidarity with Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied...
Whenever I think of Mondale, which I admit is not really all that often, I wonder what could have been had a solid liberal like him had actually been able.
For some reason I'm fascinated by this recent survey of people's perception of states. I'm not surprised that the most popular state among Republicans is Florida -- the number of.