Ken Burns is a very skilled filmmaker, but he is a terrible adjudicator of history. Despite his constant claims that he doesn’t take a position, of course he does and it is inevitably one of a c
Even in a relatively good economy, college after college is seeking to turn their institutions into a vo-tech program and eliminate the liberal arts and, in some cases, the social scientists. The late
In a bit of a companion piece to yesterday’s article about battleship mutinies, today I offer a short look at some of the most dreadful accidents in the history of the battleship form… Bat
The Stop and Shop strike is over and at least tentatively it looks like the workers won most of what they wanted. The devil is always in the details and I’m having trouble finding much about the
I’m in New Bedford to give a talk on the connections and problems between the labor and environmental movements. Happy times on this Earth Day! Climate change is coming and we are going to do ab
Former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart has a theory: For Democrats, leaving Donald Trump in office is not only good politics — it is the best chance for fundamental realignment of American poli
Does the Democratic field need another subpar white man? No, but it’s getting one. Rep. Replace Nancy Pelosi with TBA (D-Mass.) has decided he wasn’t sufficiently beclowned after his attem
Ridiculous as it is as a legal theory, it certainly is world-class trolling: President Trump sued his own accounting firm and the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight Committee at the same time