Now that it is beyond the paywall, you really need to read Gabriel Winant's essay on the state of the union movement. It's one of the smartest takes on unionism you will have read in a very long time. He takes me to task a...
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Dayen warns us about the influence of Silicon Valley over the Clinton campaign, a lobbying campaign with a real impact on the American people. I assume there's nothing in here.
If historians are going to keep writing awesome political histories and other histories, we are going to need access to primary sources. Increasingly those primary sources are online. But as.
Nashville hot chicken has become a thing. A recent write up of this phenomenon of a dish long eaten by the area's African-American population credited white people for making it happen. Um, no. George Embiricos at Food Republic has written a hot mess of an...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 14: Usain Bolt of Jamaica competes in the Men's 100 meter semifinal on Day 9 of the Rio 2016 Olympic.
Above: Gerda Lerner, Badass Political Historian This is a guest post by Gabriel Rosenberg and Ariel Ron. Gabriel N. Rosenberg is assistant professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist Studies at.
I've long maintained that the biggest argument against marijuana legalization is that stoner culture is really irritating. Throwing hippies in prison? Well, there's an argument for it! Anyway, the idea that marijuana culture is somehow this wonderful thing operating under the capitalist radar and is...
Not a total victory for justice, but I don't really mind how Alexandria, Virginia is dealing with its plethora of streets and statues named for Confederates. Basically, it's renaming Jefferson.
Here is another long essay about Trump supporters and what they see in him. The useful thing in this piece is how it identifies the divide between relatively wealthy Republicans.
I enjoyed reading this profile of Boston Red Sox organist Josh Kantor, largely because he's a player in the larger New England music scene and sat in for most of the Drive-By Truckers' show in Providence last fall, which was super cool. However, one thing...
One of the many horrible things about the deportations and criminalization at the heart of American immigration policy is that it divides families, with parents sent back to Mexico or.
I love the films produced by the military in World War II. Here is Mission Accomplished, a short 1943 film about the success of the B-17.