Since it's Carrie Nation day here at LGM, let's look at the 1901 Edwin S. Porter film mocking her actions, Kansas Saloon Smashers. Surprisingly lengthy Wikipedia entry about it. https://www.youtube.com/embed/S5iYtpNSG2c
Very disturbing audio below of a call NFL star Richard Sherman's wife Ashley Moss made to a 911 dispatcher about her husband's apparently violent and suicidal behavior. She asks for.
I have a piece in NBC News pointing out that cynical pols like J.D. Vance and Josh Hawley using superficially "populist" rhetoric to justify policies that would make American inequality.
Dahlia Lithwick has been getting increasingly shrill over the past couple of years, which under the circumstances merely means she's been paying attention to what's going on: For years, Trump used the phrase “many people are saying” to essentially mean “someday people will be saying.” He...
The entire idea of burning biomass for "renewable" energy inevitably is going to lead to rich parts of the world burning the forests of poor parts of the world. Or.
William Corrin As an individual who has spent the past two decades working in the field of education policy, I know too well how diabolical and difficult a problem it.
Why is the U.S.-Canada border still closed to vaccinated people? I can fly to Europe if I want to. But I can't drive to Niagara Falls. The point of vaccinations is that you have done what you need to do to protect yourself and others. You...
As Jamelle Bouie observes, Trump's acquittal after being impeached for inciting an insurrection is hardly unprecedented: Neither group is blameless, but the problem goes beyond our political elites, however fearful,.
If you were wondering how the heat bubble of the Northwest and Canada impacted marine life, well, it ain't good. Chris Harley smelled Kitsilano Beach before he even arrived.The odour.
One thing the pandemic has done is made people question whether the 5-day work week really makes sense. People had done that before the pandemic too, but like a lot of things, the pandemic took previous conversations and made them increasingly relevant. Iceland for instance has...
This twitter thread from a previously obscure figure has made the American right wing, plus the entire I Don't Support Trump But Brigade -- at this point it should be.
This is the grave of Carrie Nation. Born in 1846 in Garrard County, Kentucky, Carrie Moore (her name sometimes spelled Carry, but historians generally use the Carrie spelling despite the.