I generally love the films of Kelly Reichardt. Part of that is that she, along with Gus Van Sant, are the great Oregon directors. But that's not really it, even if maybe it is a little bit on the margins. It's that she tells these...
Author: Erik Loomis
Starbucks employee Tim Swicord and Gailyn Berg pose for a portrait outside of a Starbucks in Springfield, Va on April 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy for NPR) Does a single.
I mean, I'm skeptical given the Supreme Court. On the other hand, I have a very solid rule that never betrays me but that actually now has: anytime Idaho comes.
For those of us who don't follow American policy around Israel and larger Jewish issues generally, it can be confusing to watch what has happened to the Anti-Defamation League, which has transformed from generally good organization doing generally good work to islamophobic fascists. What the...
Hey, speaking of Eurodiaspora nations engaging in cultural genocide, at least Pete Hegesth's lethality means not giving a shit whether you blow up the astouding UNESCO World Heritage Sites of.
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I've been remiss at covering the NBA here this season. The state of the NBA media is this--everyone hates the NBA for reasons that seem primarily to do with nostalgia for their youth. Everything that happens today is bad, everyone sucks, every record that is...
In 1892, the French military decided to colonize big chunks of western Africa. That year, they rampaged across what is today Benin and engaged in a massive looting of that.
The military could kill fewer civilians. In fact, it developed a plan to do so. But what fun is that for Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump? Images from the missile.
This is the grave of Arthur Sullivan. Born in 1842 in Lambeth, London, Sullivan grew up around music. His father was a clarinet player and led a military band. The boy was expected to go into music and he started writing his own tunes by...
Going back to last night's discussion of Mervyn LeRoy's excellent Three on a Match, let's revisit other of his films from 1932, Big City Blues. This is less successful. It's.
Sometimes I wonder about the academic pieces that get attention from larger news sources. Usually this is "economists or political scientists discover something that historians have written about for 25.