There's so many. But I have a particular reason to talk about Mike Lee's scumbaggery. This is the self-regard of Mormons as being "nice people." This isn't entirely false, as far as it goes. But whereas Utah did not used to be a right-wing fever...
Author: Erik Loomis
The AI stories are coming fast and furious now. Will AI change how we read? Will historians embrace AI and what does that mean? I don't know, but I do.
A weird weekend with two of the most inexplicable trades ever. The most egregious was the Red Sox shipping Rafael Devers to the Giants for a bunch of whatever. I.
White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller (R) joins Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to discuss U.S. immigration policy at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. August 2, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC12A3375CB0 Hamilton Nolan notes that the money in the...
Interesting argument here from Ned Resnikoff: It’s barely an exaggeration to say that Trump plans to wage a civil war against much of the population of the United States. How.
This is the grave of Jane Byrne. Born in 1933 in Chicago, Jane Burke grew up rich. Her father was the VP of a steel company. They were a Catholic.
The reason why it's frankly idiotic to say that we shouldn't be having discussions about the future of the Democratic Party and instead just all get behind Democrats to oppose Trump (a position most strongly held by those who said Biden should stay in the...
I've discussed this before, but the shift in the 2030 census will mean that Democrats can win Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania and still lose the Electoral College. We will now.
On June 16, 1958, the Chicago Crossing Guards Association rejected an offer from AFSCME to join the union because these women did not believe the union would fight effectively for.
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (C) (D-NY) meets with newly-elected Democratic senators-elect Kyrsten Sinema (L) (D-AZ) and Jacky Rosen (R) (D-NV) in his office at the U.S. Capitol November 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. Both Sinema and Rosen were formerly...
Part of the reason the U.S. has such a vital economy most of the time is that we have allowed in immigrants. Here's the thing about immigration--everything thing about it.
This is the grave of Luana Reyes. Born in Portland, Oregon in 1933, Reyes was half-Filipino, half-Sinixt, but she grew up much more with her Native identity than her Asian.