A fitting bookend to RBG letting Scalia bully her into removing references to Florida's rampant vote suppression from her Bush v. Gore dissent: Katie Couric has admitted to 'protecting' Ruth Bader.
David Bowie performs Young Americans on the Dick Cavett Show, December 4, 1974 (Luther Vandross is singing backup) This is just one of many fun-filled numbers I've been playing around.
I was surprised last week to see one of the epidemiologists I follow admonishing those who think that covid's “becoming endemic” is a good thing for humans. It is a.
There are so many social movements that don't get enough attention in our historical memory. One of those is the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican movement in New York and.
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, of Sweden, addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) As always, Greta.
This is the grave of Orval Faubus. Born in Combs, Arkansas in 1910, Faubus was...named after Eugene Debs. His father was a socialist who loved Debs. This in itself is.
Someone mentioned this in comments earlier today and I feel it is worth a post highlighting it: American workers are engaged in "the equivalent of a general strike," former Labor.
Writing about drug policy in the US is always a tricky thing, given the history of moral panic and wildly dysfunctional and unjust politics that have surrounded the issue since.
