Tom Seaver, one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history and the star of the team that was one of the best American sports stories on the 20th century, died.
Criterion Channel is running a program of Les Blank's documentaries. I have seen quite a few of his groundbreaking and wonderful work in the 70s and 80s documenting American folk.
This is a follow-on from my post this morning about how the corrupt nature of contemporary American presidential elections, and in particular the thoroughgoing corruption of the contemporary Republican party,.
White Americans dedication to the privileges of whiteness is the greatest problem this nation faces. It's the greatest problem this nation has always faced. What is happening right now is.
The historian Lawrence Glickman on how Republicans have been banging the SOCIALISM!!!!! fearmongering talking point for generations. At last week’s Republican National Convention, presidential son Eric Trump evoked Ronald Reagan.
By IceUnshattered - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42933231 Some thoughts on China's recent missile tests... An old adage of defense analysis is that a weapon system that has not.
Beginning to see the light: There’s a widespread perception — shared by both Democrats and Republicans — that GOP voters are far more motivated by a desire to control the.
Somehow these proactive new paradigms more ridiculous every cycle: Of all third party vanity wank projects, the very silliest (although not the most harmful) variety is to put together a.
