There’s a long-standing myth repeated, among others, by the Obama Administration, that FDR hung Herbert Hoover out to dry after the 1932 election, refusing to help the president try and right th
I have a short piece up at War is Boring on The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki’s (presumably) last film: The Wind Rises is a loose biography of Jiro Horikoshi, the man behind the famous A6M ZeroÂ
On May 26, 1924, the doors of the United States closed to most immigrants as President Calvin Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924. The law set the yearly quota for a nation’s population
A couple of quick notes: I’ve closed comments on my last post. Some little rage-monkey with a ridiculously misogynistic blog showed up and started posting links to his He-Man Woman Hater’s
Like the absurdly low OSHA violation fines that give employers no incentive to fix safety problems on the job, the low fines for corporate polluters are just a drop in the bucket for gigantic companie
I understand that CNN is a business and thus decides to provide Americans a month of wall-to-wall coverage of the Malaysian Air flight. So I suppose I also understand that CNN won’t talk about c
Outstanding Ian Urbina story on the exploitation of people held in immigrant detention centers. The immigration detention system serves as a nearly unpaid labor force thanks to the privatized prison c
If you’d like to get caught up on the horrific details of the California spree shooting, PZ Meyers has a transcript of the shooter’s… manifesto–I guess–here. I’ve s