On August 8, 1635, a slave named Maria was killed by her master in the Philippines and he is later executed for it. This is a window into issues of sex slavery and colonialism, a topic which deserves more attention in our larger consideration of...
Author: Erik Loomis
On August 7, 1933, sugar beet workers strike in Oxnard, California, organized under the communist-led Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, a communist union, went on strike. Part of a.
This is not even remotely surprising. When you have companies that don't care about safety for environment or consumers, you have companies that don't care about labor conditions either. When.
This is the grave of George Inness. Born in 1825 in Newburgh, New York, Inness grew up mostly in Newark, New Jersey. He became interested in art and painting. That could mean practical work as well as pure art and he apprenticed with a mapmaker...
Julien Duviver's groundbreaking 1930 film David Golder is a strange one. It's groundbreaking in that it made Duvivier's career, but also was one of the first major sound production in.
Markwayne might be doing a better job of keeping ICE a bit quieter than Noem, but the American ethnic cleansing is back to record levels. Detentions by Immigration and Customs.
It doesn't hurt us to go deep into the policy weeds every once and awhile, so here's a good post on the new European Electrification Action Plan: Today the European Commission launched its Electrification Action Plan. The headline number, still a bracketed placeholder when I analysed...
This is the grave of Reginald Heber Smith. Born in 1889 in Fall River, Massachusetts, Smith grew up wealthy enough to go to Harvard. He graduated there in 1910 and.
This is the grave of Moscelyne Larkin, despite it being so overgrown you can't really read it, a problem with the flat gravestones of the mid to late twentieth century.
This is the grave of Ed Brooke. Born in 1919 in Washington, D.C., Edward Brooke grew up in what passed for the black upper class of the era, though it was really middle class by white standards. His father was a lawyer who worked for...
Last weekend was Newport Folk Festival. A few general notes, similar to what I've said in the past. There are great things about this festival, some frustrating things about it,.
Il Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella con Javier Gerardo Milei, Presidente della Repubblica Argentina (foto di Francesco Ammendola - Ufficio per la Stampa e la Comunicazione della Presidenza della Repubblica).