The historian Lawrence Glickman has a great essay that very strongly makes the case that white backlash is a defining feature of American history: There was, then, nothing particularly novel about the
Powerful read here on the impact of COVID-19 on black funeral homes. Under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s 31 March guidelines for Covid-19 emergency medical care, hospitals will receive r
Leo Gertner and Shaun Richman are right. Unemployment insurance should be permanently changed to add this $600 a week. If employers don’t like it, they can actually create jobs people want to wo
Sure, the meatpacking plants are now slightly less horrible than they were before COVID-19 forced the industry to make slight changes so their workers didn’t get sick and die. But those changes
Oh OK The Trump administration has discussed whether to conduct the first U.S. nuclear test explosion since 1992 in a move that would have far-reaching consequences for relations with other nuclear po
There are so many amazing clips of the last century plus of filmed material online and the news sucks so bad these days that I thought it would be a good idea to start having some evening thread exami
Sure, interest rates are low. But we are about to enter into a horrifying housing crisis and millions of people lack work. In New England, it is likely to be especially bad. “If we don’t see a dra
As we have seen throughout the COVID crisis, worker safety is a huge problem in this nation. One big reason for that is that corporations have gone full regulatory capture on OSHA. We need serious OSH