This is the grave of Charles William Eliot. Born in 1834 in Boston, Eliot grew up at the peak of the Brahmin elites of that city. This was a super wealthy family, the money mostly coming from shipping and merchant activity and banking. Eliot went...
Author: Erik Loomis
The grave with the cracked stone is the grave of Robert Finley. Born in 1772 in Princeton, New Jersey, Finley grew up pretty well off. His parents had come from.
This is the grave of Tony Jones. Born in 1966 in Royston, Georgia, Jones was a big kid and became an offensive lineman. Now, information about somewhat average NFL offensive.
This is the grave of Craig "Sky" Hertwig. Born in 1952 in Columbus, Georgia, Craig Hertwig, as he preferred to be known, became in fact known as Sky. That's because he was super tall 6'8". Being a big kid in Georgia in the 1960s meant...
A quick reminder from Dean Baker--there is no such thing as a "good job." The good jobs we nostalgically remember today as good were only made good by unions forcing.
I published an essay not long ago in Where Are the Workers? Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites about the lack of labor history in National Park Service sites..
This isn't a particularly important point, but I think an interesting thing about Biden is that I cannot remember an administration where all of the usual top-line Cabinet appointees have been either underwhelming or outright terrible but where so many of the usual below-the-radar Cabinet...
This is the grave of Samuel Beer. Born in Bucyrus, Ohio in 1911, Beer went to a military academy where he was classmates and football teammates with Barry Goldwater, and.
This is the grave of David Ruffin. Born in 1941 in the amazingly named Whynot, Mississippi, Ruffin grew up the son of a minister and a lumber truck driver. That's.
On August 4, 1909, the Swedish General Strike began. Perhaps the largest and most sustained general strike in world history, lasting more than one month, I am surprised it is not more internationally known today. The workers did not win, but that hardly ever gets...
So I really don't know what to make of this, but it seems that right wing websites are in complete collapse. You can read the study here, but this tweet.
Well, college sports is no longer exploitation ball since the players are now getting paid, in many, many cases much more than they will make in the "professional" leagues. This.