Author: Erik Loomis
I was on The Takeaway with Melissa Harris-Perry today to talk about the 4-day work week idea and, more broadly, about work culture in America. Check it out!
This is the grave of Orville Platt. Born in 1827 in Washington, Connecticut, Platt didn’t grow up particularly wealthy. I think his family was just part of the growing middle class of 19th centu
The death of at least 39 migrants, mostly Guatemalans, in a Juarez center where they are imprisoned rather than allow them into the U.S. is just as much a crime and a symptom of a broken, racist Ameri
Yep: “When I came out of the space ship I was crying, just sobbing, and I thought why am I crying? What’s going on? I’m in grief. What am I grieving about?” Shatner says. “Oh shit, I’m gri
This is the grave of Chris Kelly. Born in 1978 in Atlanta, Kelly grew up in the burgeoning rap world that came out of New York but soon made a home in Atlanta. He was into it. So was his friend Chris
Greg Sargent has a good piece in the Post thinking through what it means for Michigan to overturn its right to work law. Specifically, what does this signal about the current Democratic Party? We had
This week’s musical highlight was seeing James McMurtry, for what I think is the 12th time, though that’s an educated guess because I started going to his shows before I kept track of such
This is the grave of Stanley Cavell. Born in 1926 in Atlanta as Stanley Goldstein, he changed his name in the early 40s, I think maybe to hide his Jewish background. He later claimed that it was an im