Variety of water related news on a work filled Wednesday. 1. Richard Lyon has a good run-down on the political side of the California drought. House Republicans are looking to pass a bill that will gut environmental protections for San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin...
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The Wall Street Journal doubles down on the claim that criticizing the 1% could lead to the next Holocaust.
Well this is certainly interesting: Reproductive health care advocate Sandra Fluke has filed papers to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in California. According to the Washington Post, the.
On Saturday night, I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to see the amazing guitarist Marc Ribot play. The show was filmed, albeit with a stationary camera. Here is the first 19 minutes of the first song (the rest of the show is also...
The French Revolution Digital Archive is now online, providing us access to 14,000 digitized images from the time. Good stuff for all you who teach this stuff and for those.
An examination of where Mexican-Americans live in the United States shows they still mostly live in Mexico, or at least what Mexico was before the United States unjustly stole it.
A very special treat for everyone tonight. Of all the right-wing anti-hippie country songs from the late 60s and early 70s, none, and I mean none, reach the magisterial bizarre.
Thing is, Mitt actually seems more electable than most of the frequently mentioned possible 2016 GOP candidates.
I've been reading and rereading some key books of American labor history of late and I have a few thoughts. First on the CIO, after reading Robert Zieger's 1995's book, The CIO, 1935-1955. There's a sort of popular history of the CIO in the progressive...
Good for Harry Reid, denying Obama's desire to fast track free trade agreements that will send even more jobs out of the United States. And as Scott has noted about.
It would be difficult, nigh impossible, to create a tumblr more dedicated to my interests than Communists with Cats.