The old saw about right-wingers that every accusation is a confession is mostly true. But you rarely see it as clearly stated as Trump's demands on Harvard. Apparently this was the breaking point for Harvard: cluster hires for conservatives. [image or embed] — Charles Petersen...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Nathaniel Hill. Born in 1832 in Montgomery, New York, Hill grew up on a farm, but pretty well off. His older brother went to Yale,.
This is the grave of Elijah Muhammad. Born in Sandersville, Georgia in 1897, Elijah Poole grew up in the poor South of the Jim Crow era. His schooling ended in.
Photos from the opening of the new Delta Air Lines terminal in LaGuardia Airport in Queens, NY, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. (Chris Rank for Rank Studios) Two major New York unions, both of which had put pressure on Andrew Cuomo to step down, have...
I claim no knowledge on the details of this, or most any other, legal question. But this is a pretty compelling and disturbing piece on how and why our immigration.
Whoops! The Food and Drug Administration earlier this month fired dozens of staffers responsible for going after retailers who illegally sell tobacco to minors. Now it’s begging them to come.
This is the grave of Henry Knox. Born in Boston in 1750, Knox grew up in mixed circumstances. His family was upwardly mobile, with a successful shipbuilder as a father. But the business turned and the father just disappeared in 1759, dying in the Caribbean...
Antonia Hitchens' report from Trumpland generally and CPAC last month is....you know what, just kill me now: I rode up in a golf cart to the front of Mar-a-Lago. Trump.
This is the grave of William Parker. The horrible racist violent cop scum William Parker was born in 1905 in Lead, South Dakota. He grew up in Deadwood. The family.
Do you ever wonder what the heck historians talk about when they discuss their research? Well, if you do or are interested in labor history more generally, next Tuesday night, April 22, at 5 eastern, I am participating in the Malgeri Modern American Society &...
This is the grave of Kirk Douglas. Born in 1916 in Amsterdam, New York, Issur Danielovitch grew up very poor in the Jewish immigrant community of that upstate Erie Canal-based.
Merrick Garland is highly concerned that he should have done anything about this. Politically right now things are looking really bad, which is especially interesting if you cast your mind.