I'm sick and tired of trying to meet our commentariat's demands for more posts about Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname. To shut you all up about these vital nations, I'm linking to Colin's post about the forgotten South American nations and why their histories are...
Author: Erik Loomis
An iconic moment in environmental history is the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Dam. San Francisco, always desperate for fresh water supplies, looked to the Sierra Nevada to quench its.
Noted VERY SERIOUS POLITICAL WEBSITE (TM) Politico only employs the finest reporters. Take its political reporter Donovan Slack. In reporting on Obama's visit to Wisconsin today, she determined to show.
Santorum's billionaire supporter Foster Friess on contraception: Back in my day, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly. No, this was contraception back in your day: Condom wrapper, Texas, 1910.
To continue on the theme of late 19th/early 20th century sexuality and its implications for today, you all must read this absolutely outstanding Michelle Goldberg piece in The Nation on.
So this last half of this week is going to see a series of posts on Gilded Age/Progressive Era sexuality. I'm teaching it tomorrow, I was thinking of Comstock, there.
So says noted maverick John McCain. In fact, this was McCain's contribution to the floor debate over the clearly qualified federal judge nominee Adalberto Jose Jordan. Dana Milbank uses the Republicans' delaying the confirmation of the Cuban-American Jordan as a way to explore how the...
When I started writing over here, I had planned to run a series of my best posts at Alterdestiny since no one read them at the time. In fact, that's.
When discussing the Flint sit-down strike of 1937 last weekend, I noted John Nance Garner's support for using soldiers to bust the strike. It reminded of just how awful Garner.
The brilliance of the Republican strategy to go all in with the Catholic bishops on denying birth control to women is paying off major dividends. If you are a Democrat. A new poll shows absolutely no drop in support for Obama among Catholics after 2...
I hope everyone enjoys America's worst holiday.
If there was one place where you would not expect to find sexism, it's in the awarding of the National Humanities Medals. Given that the choices for these awards are.