Michelle Goldberg makes a very smart point here: Are the protests against commencement speakers and honorary degree recipients an example of the anti-liberal left? I think there's a difference between stopping someone from speaking and stopping a college from honoring them. Everybody gets to speak, but...
From a historian's perspective, the most interesting thing about the arrest of Gerry Adams on murder charges is the central role of oral histories given under an understanding of confidentiality..
I've been looking at various demographic breakdowns of income in the USA. Here's an interesting one from the Census Bureau, based on household size (A household is everyone who lives.
By 1896, the beard trend of the Gilded Age was fading, especially among younger men. The Civil War vets would keep their grizzled old beards, but the Progressives would eschew such resplendent facial hair. Williams' Shaving Soap actively worked to take advantage. What better way to...
Iowa Republicans conducted a study trying to show voter fraud, and found essentially no voter fraud of any kind and literally no fraud that would be prevented by Voter ID.
No investigation is too intrusive to insure that NCAA players aren't receiving voluntary payments from third parties: Former Oklahoma center Gabe Ikard signed as an undrafted free agent with the.
The Catholic Church is an institution really prepared to move into the future: The new pope, exorcists say, has become their champion in the face of modern skeptics, many of them within the Catholic faith. Officially, those claiming to be possessed must first undergo psychiatric evaluations....
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you America's most manly, heterosexual sport: I don't know anything about football but I do know Michael Sam's boyfriend is cute.— bspencer (@vacuumslayer) May 13,.
With due respect to Charles Pierce... There is no better mainstream reporter on this stuff than Charlie Savage, my old colleague at The Boston Globe who now writes for the.
The NCAA, so concerned about its "student athletes" that they can be prevented form transferring to the school of their choice for no reason whatsoever: Leticia Romero came to Kansas State University from the Canary Islands to play basketball. After Romero’s freshman season—a successful one on...
MRC: Comedians “poison the minds of America's young people EACH AND EVERY DAY,” turning them "into “leftist zombies” pic.twitter.com/PdGZC3i7Hn — Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) May 13, 2014 Hey, wingnuts, I've got.
The James Garfield tomb is perhaps my favorite example of Gilded Age hyperbolic self-memorialization. This amazing building mythologizes our 20th president and his incalculable contributions to the nation both through.