The Navy has released a report on the events leading to and immediately following the collision between the destroyer USS Fitzgerald and merchant vessel ACX Crystal. Well worth your time, especially
infrastructure, weak. https://t.co/HB2BwZ7Gxn — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 17, 2017 Time for another solo on le trombone du tristesse. President Donald Trump has scrapped plans for an infrastruc
In the big scheme of things, Trump’s consistent faith in violent racist historical myths is perhaps not our greatest problem. But it certainly contributes to it. Of course, Trump’s embrace
In the summer of 2016, as WikiLeaks was publishing documents from Democratic operatives allegedly obtained by Kremlin-directed hackers, Julian Assange turned down a large cache of documents related to
The next time someone talks about the importance of preserving his heritage, tell him his heritage is cheap and tacky. This is a fascinating twitter thread about a lot of the Confederate statues that
Donald Trump is spending this morning of his vacation lamenting the removal of various monuments to treason in defense of slavery: Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped
This is the grave of Claude Bowers. Born in 1878 in Westfield, Indiana, Bowers became a journalist in Terre Haute as a young man. Self-taught, Bowers never went to college but devoured any book he cou
I just have no idea what to say at this point. Steve Bannon called Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect, evidently just to chat. Yeah, I guess Bannon reads The American Prospect. I asked Bannon abo