I have a book deadline of August 1 so everyone asking "WHY ISN'T OUR LABOR HISTORIAN BLOGGING ABOUT WHAT I WANT HIM TO BLOG ABOUT INSTEAD OF LINKING TO A STORY ABOUT BIDEN" is just going to have to deal with it. But I was...
Author: Erik Loomis
Going to the archives always provides interesting perspective, no? In the 1990s, I was a political journalist who covered the White House, Congress and elections. One of my annual chores.
This is the grave of David Dinkins. Born in 1927 in Trenton, New Jersey, Dinkins split his time as a child between Trenton and Harlem, as his parents divorced when.
9-15-21 Liberty at CT Sun I figured it was time for a sports thread, but there's a problem. This week sucks. The week of the MLB All Star Game is always the worst week of the year for sports. To be fair to MLB, baseball's...
I mentioned the other day the bullshit that Arkansas's Secretary of State used to try and stop voters from deciding whether abortion will be legal in that state. Well, our.
How we doing on the the whole climate change deal? Across the American South, tides are rising at accelerating rates that are among the most extreme on Earth, constituting a.
There's no way around this point now, and I have long been amazed that people still believe in American institutions enough to think otherwise, but Donald Trump will never ever face real legal consequences for his actions. This was obvious from the moment he reached...
This is the grave of George Bancroft. Born in 1800 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Bancroft came from old Purtian stock, which he loved. His father was a leading Unitarian minister who.
The Republican Party came about 2 inches from having to answer a question: Who would have become the presidential nominee if Donald Trump had died? Without having any real idea.
Even the most anti-union American companies often have to acquiesce to unions in nations where the law and culture are more friendly to them. Much to its disgust, for example, Walmart has unionized stores in Chile. So we will see what Amazon does as warehouse...
So the Secret Service allowed a guy to climb to the top of a building where he could look directly down at a presidential candidate and open fire without detecting.
As most of you know, I find the average food in the United States to be not good compared to many other countries and it is really at its worst.