This is the grave of Billy Paul. Born either in 1934 or 1935 (sources vary), Paul Williams grew up in Philadelphia in a musical family. I don't see a lot of evidence that his family played a lot of instruments, but there was always music playing...
https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1372002293269340161 As I've pointed out before, between 1950 and 1980 America saw a total of one mass shooting incident that left eight or more people dead (the University of Texas.
It's entertaining how the Politico Playbook has taken some time off from the epoch-defining failed nomination of Neera Tanden to credulously report on Mitch McConnell's threats to the Democratic caucus:.
This is a somewhat disconcerting story: Despite concerns surrounding her age and capability of serving in Congress, Senator Dianne Feinstein said she has no plans to retire this term.Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, the former top Democrat of the Senate Judiciary Committee said she intends on serving the remainder...
Much of my professional career has resolved around the tricky policy questions of building so-called blue-green alliances and undermining the tensions between the labor and environmental movements. As such, I.
The EU reacted to both the recessions of 2008/9 and 2020/1 with much less stimulus than the US (despite the ARRA in particular being plainly inadequate.) The U.S. has also.
You may remember Noah Feldman from such arguments as "The Supreme Court that has been afflicting the powerless and comforting the powerful for 50 years is awesome" and "Amy Coney Barrett is awesome" and "Cooley and the New England School of Law leaving students with hundreds...
I talked yesterday about the poisoning of the water supplies of Jackson, Mississippi by a government more concerned with Dr. Seuss books than with its own people, at least if.
This is a bit older now, but worth highlighting. The always important labor reporter Stephen Greenhouse has a real good interview with one of the Amazon leaders: Can you talk.
A supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump holds an anti-vaccine sign while protesting at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. Washington's mayor, Muriel Bowser, urged residents not to engage with any protesters "seeking confrontation" and requested National Guard help in anticipation of potential violence...
Is it fish in a barrel? Yes. But is Carlson a highly influential public figure who is currently being paid a ton of money to encourage his watchers not to.
This is the grave of George Wetmore. Born in 1846 in London, Wetmore grew up wealthy. His parents weren't English. They were just traveling in Europe when he was born..