In 1985, I took the first trip of my life. We drove from Oregon to Minnesota for a family reunion. For me, at that age, this was exciting. As we drove east on I-90, we stopped in Butte, Montana. There, I saw the Berkeley Pit,...
Author: Erik Loomis
There are many roots of Trumpism. We are just beginning to figure all of this out. In coming decades, assuming historians are still allowed to practice in fascist America, there.
My New Republic essay on how environmentalism needed to get in touch with working-class concerns came out on the day that protestors forced the Obama administration to reroute the pipeline.
Newell Normand, sheriff of Jefferson Parish in Louisiana (and other than Bull Connor, how much more appropriate could a name for a southern white sheriff be?) has a great justification for his extremely poor choices made around the murder of former Jets running back Joe...
FILE - Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kansas) and President Richard Nixon outline the Republican campaign plans January 25, 1971. Dole said Wednesday May 15, 1996 he was.
My guess is that Donald Trump has never thought about Native Americans in his life except to bemoan the fact that they can break into the casino industry. And maybe.
I make my debut in The New Republic by examining the increasing political irrelevance of environmentalism as a movement and urging it to embrace struggles based upon the lived experience of everyday people, pouring money into environmental justice movements and demanding union jobs in creating...
What does Joe Lieberman have to say about the future of the Democratic Party? No, don't bother reading the link. You already know what he has to say and that.
The following characterization does not by any means describe all LGM commenters, or even a majority. But there is certainly a strong group of people around here who look down.
Question for everyone: My parents are entering a situation where fairly significant remodeling of the house is in order for them to be able to stay there as they age. My parents aren't all that elderly, but my mother has mobility issues and it's a...
This is the grave of Abigail Scott Duniway. Born in 1834, in Illinois, Abigail Scott migrated with her family to Oregon in 1852, where she soon married Benjamin Duniway, a.
One of the many things I've personally been reckoning with in the past few weeks is how the shocking (although I am disappointed in myself for being so shocked) election.