I am really excited to watch the 1920 film The Daughter of Dawn, once thought lost (like about 85 percent of silent films) and now found. The Daughter of Dawn is more than just another Friday night flick. It is a cinematic wormhole into America's...
Author: Erik Loomis
When a new trade agreement is about to be passed, all of a sudden big-business conservatives pretend to care about the poor. They never, ever, ever care about the poor.
Corporations and their lackey politicians love state-level regulation. They usually frame this as hating federal regulation, but that's not quite true. They do have federal regulation because the federal government.
Being in higher education, one is now barraged with education studies lingo that make leadership-based lingo seem almost meaningful. For instance, last week I received an e-mail from my administration about some talk or something that called classrooms "makerspaces." I guess that's the opposite of...
Thanks to Barry Freed for this one. Sanborn's map of San Francisco, 1900. Note not only "Butcher Town" but the "Dead Horse Rendering Works" in the lower left.
One of Obama's signature policy triumphs has been preventing Washington from defeating Oregon on the gridiron during his presidency. I was worried that in this time of crisis, he would.
One of the most underreported stories about energy right now is the attempt to drive pipelines through the Big Bend area, one of the most beautiful parts of Texas and one of the most iconic, not to mention relatively wild. Here's a good story about...
I always thought Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy was pretty decent, but this attack on the faculty union at Connecticut State University is pretty disturbing. “In a stark reminder that action.
Book Review: Katherine C. Mooney, Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
In Race Horse Men, Katherine Mooney examines the long history of race from the 1820s to the 1910s through the prism of the racetrack. She effectively argues that this is.
I'm not sure how many museum exhibits have dealt with the disaster that is urban renewal honestly, especially in the affected neighborhood. So I really want to see this exhibit. In part so I can figure out what this is about: “What happened in the...
The popular reaction against memorializing American racists continues, this time with the throwing of red paint on a statue of Roger Taney in Frederick, Maryland.
That the marijuana industry acts like any other industry and seeks to limit pollution and pesticides regulations. State regulators have known since 2012 that marijuana was grown with potentially dangerous.