I was in Pittsburgh for like 3 hours yesterday. What to do in the Steel City? I know, visit the grave of American supervillain Henry Clay Frick! This was a bit subtle for my taste in graves containing evil people. Why was Frick so evil?...
Author: Erik Loomis
Yesterday was Trotsky Icepick Day and to commemorate it, The New Republic reprinted Edmund Wilson's 1933 article on him. Good stuff. It also helped me understand why Trotsky would agree.
This is super cool. Old news, but I didn't know about it and I assume most of you didn't either. Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions.
Doesn't this just make you feel confident that the Keystone XL pipeline won't lead to horrible oil spills? Of course, it's not like the pipeline will run through any land endangered species rely upon or anything like that.
Who doesn't like cool maps? No one. We know everyone is very excited about the northeast Colorado effort to secede from Colorado. Theoretically it's over Denver liberals and energy exploration,.
Louisiana Republicans are projecting just a wee bit too much here. According to a Public Policy Polling survey, 29 percent of Louisiana Republicans say President Obama is more to blame.
On August 22, 1945, five airline stewardesses, as they were then called, formed the Air Line Stewardesses Association, wanting a labor union to give them a voice on a demanding, difficult job where they faced constant pressure about their bodies, poor working conditions, low pay,...
Maureen Dowd really is the worst.
Patterson Hood with a long essay on what has become his lasting statement, as much as he might not always be comfortable with it, the duality of the southern thing,.
I have to admit that I was optimistic that meaningful immigration reform would happen in 2013. Although I didn't think I could underestimate the Republican commitment to white supremacy, I thought political reality and changing demographics would force just enough Republicans out of insanity to...
The Obama Administration has made some positive moves in the wake of the West fertilizer plant explosion that killed at least 15 people in April, which is good because the.
Not that fashion is exactly my wheelhouse, but this piece on the growth of tanning salon use among white teenage women and the very real health risks involved is worth.