Ted Cruz is writing some great attack ads for his opponents in 2016. "Ted Cruz: He wants to double the cost of your internet access." Now that's a surefire path to the presidency!
Author: Erik Loomis
In 1938, a couple of Jewish Americans went on vacation to Poland, where one of them was from. They made films of their trip. Some of them survived. Thanks to.
Palm oil is a very efficient way of producing cooking oil and is thus in high demand around the world. One huge problem is that it is turning the incredibly.
25 years ago yesterday, the Salvadoran military massacred six Jesuit priests and two women who worked for them. The National Security Archive has collected documents showing how the Bush administration refused to acknowledge that its client state's military could have committed such an atrocity, when...
What happens when our unjust immigration system deports parents of children who are under 18? It's usually pretty grim. Orange is the New Black actress Diane Guerrero's story is about.
There are a lot of labor stories in my blogging queue right now. Let's just deal with them all at once. 1. Do we need a new legal framework for.
I haven't read Naomi Klein's new climate change book but I want to. I did read Elizabeth Kolbert's review of it. The basic problem we face in dealing with climate change is that both Klein and Kolbert are correct. First, Kolbert's summary of Klein: Klein...
The borderlands historian Andrew Graybill's latest book is an extremely readable saga into the great complexities of what it has meant to be mixed-race in the American West. The Red.
The level of denial in Japan over forced prostitution, rape, and colonized Korean "comfort women" in World War II is remarkable. Instead, the Japanese government's narrative is that Japan is.
Why are so many governor elections in non-presidential years? The answer depends on state, like so much else in American life. But in Florida at least, the election was moved off the presidential year in order to preserve white supremacist power: Or maybe just like...
150 years ago today, troops under the command of William Tecumseh Sherman undertook the major portion of the burning of Atlanta. The real story around this event is quite complicated,.
We've discussed the 1935 Idaho Potato Queen here in the past. But she didn't exist in a vacuum. Food related royalty has long been a thing in the U.S. They.