Given its namesake, Mother Jones is not exactly great on labor issues. I want to point out this problematic article by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella about AFSCME's opposition to closing an Illinois prison. The problem isn't that they are wrong to criticize AFSCME. Although...
Author: Erik Loomis
Of course the conservative response to comparing Ted Cruz and Joe McCarthy is to embrace McCarthy.
Walter Cronkite previews the office of 2001, in 1967. Marissa Mayer would obviously disapprove. Working from home! Of course, Cronkite couldn't imagine a woman in this office. Via
A few interesting pieces on Asian food and history. 1. This is an interesting discussion of the origins of pad thai, a dish that is fairly minor within Thai cooking but is the singular dish of Thai food overseas. It's connections are closely related to...
Very interesting: Which is where Paraguay’s own “Argo” enters into the story. After Jimmy Carter denied Somoza asylum, he headed to Paraguay, where General Alfredo Stroessner’s right-wing military regime governed..
As a historian of the Gilded Age, the sequester is very exciting to me. With each passing day, a big leap back to the halcyon days of the 1890s seems.
Let Alex Pareene be your guide into the weekly circles of Hell known as the Sunday talk shows. Why anyone watches these things, I do not know. Note: you may want an alcoholic beverage of choice at hand while reading.
I am agnostic over the question at hand in this article, whether Anne Hathaway is a good actress. This is largely because I can't think of a reason why I.
It's nice that the Yankees are embracing what we here at LGM have known forever: Part of the Yankees' argument: a concession that in the baseball world, they are, in.
Check out the historian Ruth Rosen's essay on the historical arc of feminism. She sees the project at its halfway point, particularly noting the very difficult struggles to fight against domestic violence, as highlighted by House Republicans refusal to renew the Violence Against Women Act....
Very interesting.
Quite a contest for today's craziest person. Here's three nominees: 1. Gun Owners of America president Larry Pratt: Pratt predicted that President Obama may begin confiscating guns in order to.