Bari Weiss is outta here. Let’s hope the Bedbug is next.
It’s hard to overstate what a week it has been for Native Americans in this nation. Just yesterday, the Washington Genocidal Racists have decided to dump their obviously racist name. The preside
In the UBI-government guaranteed job debate, I remain pretty strongly in the latter category, for reasons I have laid out here and here and probably other places too. However, right now, there’s
As with every disaster, COVID is taking the inequalities and dysfunctions of a society and exacerbating them. We are seeing that on any number of levels here in the Failed States of America. But globa
This is the grave of Andrew Mellon. Born in 1855 in Pittsburgh, this foundational capitalist of the Gilded Age grew up among the city’s elite. His father was a banker and Andrew followed him int
Wow, yet another film about work. Shocking I know. This is part of a 1978 BBC series looking at a week in the life of various groups of people in the nation. This is from steel workers in a Scottish i
One of the Trump administration’s most grotesque early moves was to eviscerate the Utah national monuments, both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears. If Biden is elected, he will almost cer
The U.S. most certainly has a lot of problematic statues. But so does Latin America and that reflects the history of racism and genocide just as profound there as here. Moreover, the cultural politics