I've been remiss in not talking about the Michigan right to work disaster. Part of it is that it's so bloody depressing, part is that I'm really focusing on my book and thus have reduced some of the political writing. That said, my basic thought...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is an interesting, if somewhat older, discussion of the Chinese architect Ma Yansong and his so-called "organic architecture." The piece focuses on his so-called "Marilyn Monroe" building in Mississagua,.
This is a fascinating interview with Henry Horenstein, photographer of country music. I have a Johnny Cash picture, but it’s no good. Same thing with Merle Haggard. But at the.
I know there's very little reason to have much hope for the mainstream media, but when villagers begin calling out Republicans to their faces on policy, it makes me a little more optimistic.
On December 11, 1886, the Colored Farmers' Alliance was established in Lovelady in Houston County, Texas. This organization may have accomplished little in concrete gains, but it represented the brave.
I don't want to make a big deal out of something that really probably isn't, but I do think there is some significance to Bill Clinton declaring the drug war.
The life of a musician is one of high-risk, if for no other reason that they are on the road all the time. Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera is the latest to die far too young.
Nic Kristof. Evidently Kristof is only interested in poverty if he can personally fly in and rescue women from sex slavery. Otherwise, he's happy to channel the arguments of Gilded.
Doc Severinsen does King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King." From 1970.
Leave it to a congressman from the ex-Confederacy, where the white rape of black women has a long and sordid history, to hold up the Violence Against Women Act in order to protect white men from prosecution by tribal courts if they rape a Native...
The Obama Administration needs to let Colorado and Washington have their legal marijuana. Just let it go. The Obama Administration has pretty much let the DEA do what it wants.
This is a fascinating piece on Ken Gonzales-Day, the artist and author who explores the history of lynching in the American West. We usually think of lynching as something that.