On November 12, 1892, the New Orleans General Strike ended with a major victory for workers. One of the few true general strikes in American history, it demonstrated the potential power of workers, ev
Evidently, the Trump Doctrine is making the United States a global laughingstock by yelling at all other nations incoherently and ignorantly. The Le Monde report concerned events in Washington in earl
Thankfully, we elected a man of the people in 2016. President Donald Trump watched election returns Tuesday with dozens of friends in the palatial East Room of the White House, including Republican me
We are witnesses: The Buffalo Bills are on pace to be the worst offense in modern NFL history. The 2018 season has been a historic one for offense. But perhaps the most historic offense is the worst o
Henry Gunther was born into a German-American family in east Baltimore, Maryland, on June 6, 1895. His parents, George Gunther (1869-1919) and Lina Roth (1867-1930s), were both children of German i
Dan Flores is an environmental and western historian who is also a fantastic writer. Most of his books have been about life and history on the southwestern Plains, especially west Texas, where he grew
It shouldn’t be forgotten, and Mark Joseph Stern says, that California banned the kind high capacity magazine used in the mass killing in Thousand Oaks, but were thwarted by a neoconfederate hac
There’s been a lot of discussion about these comments by Bernie in an interview with Matt Taibbi: Today, if he is a racist and a sexist, tomorrow he may be a great civil rights champion — if h