This is the grave of Oswald West. Born in 1873 in Guelph, Ontario, West grew up in Salem, Oregon, where his family moved around 1877. He went to the local schools and then went into banking in Oregon. In 1898, he got the gold bug...
Author: Erik Loomis
I had the pleasure to talk to our friend Michael Hiltzik from the Los Angeles Times about the significance of the UAW's victory in Chattanooga. The vote opens the door.
Climate change is horrible enough in the United States. Summers in New England are so much hotter than they used to be, as we turn into Virginia, Virginia turns into.
The Supreme Court case today over criminalizing homelessness has a lot of interest to me, largely because it comes from Grants Pass, a small town I know well in southwestern Oregon. As I've talked about a good bit, these issues of homelessness have multiple factors...
Allow me to build a bit on Paul's post from earlier today. The thing that strikes me about the last couple of days is that, like in the 1960s, university.
This is the grave of Samuel Lanham. Born in 1846 in South Carolina, Lanham grew up in the world of owning humans, which as a young man he was happy.
I am struck, on the death of Terry Anderson, at how the American hostages held in Lebanon was a story in the 1980s that was at least as equal in the American imagination as bombing Libya or all the crimes the government was committing in...
The problem with these poorly regulated carbon market schemes is that the replicate the exact same problems that is destroying the planet's ecosystem to begin with. This is a great.
This is good news from Biden's excellent National Labor Relations Board: Labor officials have received a green light to pursue an injunction in federal court against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper.
The Union army is about to invade Alabama like it should have done in the Civil War. In 2014, the United Auto Workers abandoned a publicized push to unionize at Alabama鈥檚 Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa County. The union did so at the request of the...
This is the grave of Frank Moss. Born in Holladay, Utah in 1911, Moss grew up pretty well off. His father was a prominent high school teacher who also did.
The editor of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer does the incredibly rare thing and actually speaks truth about Donald Trump: A more-than-occasional arrival in the email these days is a question expressed.