I was talking to a friend of mine the other day who is a historian of fascism. He said on the first day of his history of fascism class, he got a question from a student asking if Trump was fascist. He responded that it...
Author: Erik Loomis
Cesar Chavez, the head of the United Farm Workers Union, calls for the resignation of Walter Kintz, the first legal counsel for the state Agriculture Labor Relations Board, in Sacramento,.
So where are Democrats going to expand the map in order to win in the future? This if nothing else is the key question as we realize that our coalition.
This is the grave of Horace and Baby Doe Tabor. Born in 1830 in Holland, Vermont, Tabor grew up on the family farm up near the Canadian border. At the age of 17, he moved to Boston to be an apprentice to a granite cutter,...
But hey, at least Sean O'Brien gets to hate trans folk and immigrants! In his first few weeks back in office, Trump fired the acting chair of the National Labor Relations.
ProPublica has a good report on the impact on women's health from the Texas abortion ban, an issue of course that the state of Texas has no intention of tracking.
One question about Trump and President Musk is how far they can go without provoking a pretty significant backlash. There's at least a few signs that's happening in this Washington Post poll. President Donald Trump has opened his second term with a flurry of actions...
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders addresses supporters at his New Hampshire primary night rally in Manchester, N.H., U.S., February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar - HP1EG2C0CIO7Z Look, I'm not.
Well, I guess we are still alive at least, more or less. Except for the Democratic Party. That's a stinky corpse.
On February 20, 1917, leftist women in New York City, led by the anarchist Marie Ganz, held a big protest against high food prices. This led to a boycott to drive prices down. It is also a great window into the history of women and...
Things suck, but we still have movies and I recently watched one of my favorite non-Leone spaghetti westerns, The Big Gundown. Directed by Sergio Sollima and released in 1967, it.
Say what you will about the New York Times, but their obituary section is surpassed by none and while they sometimes miss someone important, they remind us of a lot.