Most of us would probably agree that we really screwed up our cities in the 1950s and 1960s. Between uncontrolled suburbanization, urban renewal, the destruction of public transportation, white flight, etc., the city became almost nightmarish by the 1980s. Maybe longtime residents and writers like...
Author: Erik Loomis
We don't discuss specific activist campaigns much here and I need to do a better job of it. I'm particularly interested in smaller movements that are doing amazing work to.
It's not like I think Tom Brokaw is all that great (starting with his pushing of the extremely annoying and completely ahistorical "greatest generation" construction), but he's sure right about.
A couple of interesting Grist pieces on food, both worth commenting so I'll just combine them. First, as we decimate the world's large fish stocks in order to satisfy our unquenchable desire for fish, we often hear that eating smaller fish is an answer. But...
How many of you were aware we were deep in a covert war in Honduras? I guess now we see a little more why Obama was pretty quiet about the.
Peter J. Hatch, the Director of Gardens and Grounds at Monticello has written a fascinating new book entitled “A Rich Spot of Earth”: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello. A.
I knew I liked Kate Beckinsale for a good reason. Republicans, Get In My Vagina! from Kate Beckinsale This is a zillion ways of awesome.
Not only do you now have to pay to be an extra in a movie, but Groupon offers deals so you can pay less!
Eric Wedge is a bad manager. The manager of the Seattle Mariners, he continues to do things that make no sense, like play Chone Figgins and Miguel Olivo. Fans criticize.
On March 4, 1886, during a protest march against police brutality in Chicago's Haymarket Square, a bomb went off in the middle of a group of policemen, killing 7 officers. The aftermath of the Haymarket bombing showed the fear American capitalists had of working-class ideologies,...
I've spent part of the last couple of days thinking about Tomás Borge, the last surviving Sandinista founder who passed a few days ago. Borge seems to sum up both.
1. You've probably heard of employers asking for job applicants Facebook passwords. But it gets worse. They are also asking for last year's W-2 forms. Why? So they can see.