I am teaching my Gilded Age/Progressive Era course this fall for the first time in five years, so it's fun to revisit some of the great silent films I show as primary sources in the class. One I have never put into this series is the...
Please enjoy this video of Patriots announcers slowly figuring out that their team was totally in over their heads [extra click may be required]: AFC preview podcast here, NFC preview.
Remember when people got paid for their labor? Gallup wasn’t the only entity asking questions about unions’ influence last week. On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its own.
The elephant in the room has been spotted: Just before noon on a holiday weekend, while many Americans were at the beach, President Trump’s social media account roared to life. In what has increasingly become his weekend habit, he unleashed a daylong barrage of posts that...
"Voters love high gas prices" is not the lesson I, personally, would have taken from the 2024 elections, but I guess it's the theory we're going to try out: Global.
I had completely forgotten that Trump is holding his farcical "midterm convention" today and tomorrow in Dallas. Apparently it's going to get TV ratings right up there with round 17.
We here at LGM constitute a Minor Media Platform, and since the cost of exporting Hot Takes is extremely low these days I find some Extremely Spicy Takes in my inbox from time to time. This was September 18, 2019: Hi Dave, While ghostwriting platforms like EduBirdie have...
Something that has pretty much gotten lost in all the other madness, and in particular in the wake of the judicial atrocity that was Trump v. United States, is another.
This is the grave of Jan Matzeliger. Born in 1852 in Paramaribo, in which is today Surinam, but was then Dutch Guiana, Matzeliger was the child of a relationship between.
The retaliatory Canadian tariffs have officially kicked in, and Trump has of course responded with more taxes: President Donald Trump responded to new tariffs on U.S. exports Tuesday by announcing bans on U.S. imports of Canadian motorcycles, dairy products and alcohol, and directed officials to restrict Canadian access...
Friend of the Blog Paul Musgrave has put together a simple model that asks you to guess voter affiliation based on two given factors, age and gender. You also have.
As if to prove the point Paul made earlier today about Trump's narcissistic 9/11 fabulism, here's how the Times framed Trump doing it not only as late nite AI slop.