There's a fascinating article up at History News Network calling for us to rethink our traditional narrative of party shifts in the mid-twentieth century, arguing that it was not the Great Depression that created the Democratic Party's dominance after World War II, but postwar prosperity....
Author: Erik Loomis
This article on bottlenose attacking and killing porpoises in really brutal ways is weird enough. But it also turns out that dolphins' "crimes" against porpoises are kind of sexual in.
Very interesting stuff, suggesting our standard estimates of death during the Civil War are significantly underestimated.
A couple additional points to my post of Sunday. 1. My original thoughts on the decline of modern songwriting and its rootlessness in regards to place came after reading this old blog post by the singer Tom Russell. Russell is a very cranky man who...
David Brooks outdoes himself today. Never have we had such clear insight into the mind of the Beltway elite! Obama is clearly far more effective pandering to the nonexistent center.
Like a lot of people, I am perplexed by Netflix splitting its home-delivery service from its online service: Which raises the question: What is Reed Hastings smoking? As far as.
Wow: A study published in 2009 — with Matthew Salzer of the Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona as the lead author — found bristlecone ring-growth rates in the second half of the 20th century to be higher than in any other...
In a huge victory for the United Auto Workers, the union signed a new contract with General Motors that actually improves workers' lives rather than accept rollbacks. Starting workers get.
As articles pour in marking the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, many focus on the Seattle scene of the early 1990s with its flannel and dark lyrics. Of course, Seattle's.
On September 17, 1989, 98 miners and one minister conducted a peaceful takeover of the Pittston Moss 3 Coal Preparation Plant. The Pittston strike was one of the most brutal and hard-fought of the last three decades. The sit-in was part of a 10 month...
At least as of 2009, my town of Springfield, Oregon had the highest known number of strip clubs per capita of any city in the United States. It has (or.
As Michael Lipsky points out, wilderness is a great thing, but it's not something devoid of human influence. In fact, these are spaces that are heavily managed by humans and.