This is the grave of Randy Castillo. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1950, Castillo was just a regular kid, part Apache, part Hispano. And like a lot of regular kids, in 1964, he saw The Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. He was...
Author: Erik Loomis
Lead is bad for you. Obviously. But it also doesn't explain everything. We have, for example, the risible argument in Caroline Fraser's recent book that lead poisoning in the Northwest.
I know some people around here have no patience for generational politics. I get that it's limited and a shortcut from real analysis. OK. On the other hand, these polling.
This is the grave of J.B. Jackson. Born in 1909 in Dinard, France, James Brinckerhoff Jackson's parents were rich Americans. He spent his childhood between the U.S. and Europe, including fancy schools in Switzerland. His family had a ranch in New Mexico and he often...
America is sure making friends globally. An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana.
This is the grave of Mamie Till Mobley. Born in 1921 in Webb, Mississippi, Mamie Carthan grew up in Chicago. Her parents got out of Mississippi shortly after she was.
Every year, the Old Labor Hall in Barre, Vermont, that great home of the granite workers and its union, hosts a big May Day talk, cosponsored by the Vermont AFL-CIO. This year it is me. If you are in the area, come out and say...
I hope someone loves you as much as Scumbag Don loves people who steal from the poor: In December 2023, the U.S. Justice Department sued a Texas land developer it.
Catholics like to talk a good game about social justice but working for Catholic colleges is pretty terrible from an employment perspective. Just about everyone I've known who teaches at.
This is the grave of James Henry Hammond, one of the worst humans in American history, Born into the slaveholding class in 1807 in Newberry County, South Carolina, Hammond grew up reasonably well off but not super rich. He went to South Carolina College, graduating...
Companies are so all-in for AI that there is a chip shortage and thus the prices for personal computers are skyrocketing. I built a PC for a colleague in January.
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 was one of the truly groundbreaking laws in American history, creating the entire idea of citizen review of development projects for environmental impact..