The historian Mary Mendoza has a good piece on how there is often more attention to the diversity of plants and wildlife on the border than diversity of people and suggests how we might think about th
Our history is all around us and yet most of us don’t know it because there is no way to know it. Especially for much of our problematic history, there aren’t sites of memorialization or r
Here’s a “fun” visualization of seven species whose numbers are so low that they could all theoretically fit in a train car. Good job humans. And especially good job capitalism for b
On September 19, 1981, the AFL-CIO held Solidarity Day in Washington, D.C. This event was organized labor’s strongest reaction to the Reagan administration and although largely forgotten about t
This is the grave of John Randolph of Roanoke. Born in what is today Hopewell, Virginia in 1773 to one of Virginia’s most elite families, Randolph spent his life defending the interests of that
As I discussed when Hurricane Florence was about to strike, natural disasters are really natural forces exposing the inequalities and poor planning of human society. Thus, the example of coal ash pond
Now that Trump has informed us that Hurricane Florence is going to be big and wet, I think we are all pretty confident that this administration is well-prepared for what is happening. After a year of
This is the grave of Piet Mondrian. Pieter Mondriaan was born in 1872 in the Netherlands, only changing his name slightly in the late 1900s. I am the first person to admit that I don’t know too