This is the grave of Paul Brown. Born in 1880 in Hartwell, Georgia, Brown went to the University of Georgia and then got a law degree from the same school in 1901. He passed the bar almost immediately and started a practice in the town...
Author: Erik Loomis
Photomechanical print (postcard)Undivided backSeries No. 2245el;l(1905) There's a big strike going on at Cornell, as anyone who watched Shawn Fain's speech at the DNC knows. Cornell is going all-in on.
Not only is Chipotle almost comically overrated, but it is as bad on its workers unionizing as any other company and is happy to commit labor law violations to bust.
Here's an interesting thing and perhaps a good debate to have: Students returning to school in a growing number of states and districts are facing tight restrictions and outright bans on cellphone use as evidence mounts of the damaging impact persistent connection to the internet...
This is the grave of Richard Brodhead. Born in 1811 in Lehman Township, Pennsylvania, Brodhead grew up in that small town and then moved to the big city in 1830..
Turns out that teacher strikes make life better for teachers without harming student learning, according to this new study: Their data set — which covers 772 teacher strikes across 610.
There's a new study out looking at the wealth of members of Congress whose ancestors owned slaves compared with members of Congress whose ancestors did not own slaves. Will it shock you that those with slaver ancestors are a lot wealthier 179 years after the...
For years, I found Democrats' fear to engage in an open defense of abortion frustrating. How did it help to couch your defense as "safe, legal, and rare" for example?.
This is the grave of Thomas Holdup Stevens. Born in 1819 in Middletown, Connecticut, Holdup-Stevens was a Navy kid. His father, Thomas Sr., was a well-known officer in the War.
Someone wanted a hot dish open thread. So here's Tim Walz's hot dish recipe. I grew up in Oregon, but in the Lutheran church so everyone was from Minnesota, the Dakotas, or Nebraska. This stuff was part of my life. I am sorry, but it...
This is the grave of Theodore Dreiser. Born in 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana, Dreiser grew up in a big Catholic family and they were quite poor. He did graduate.
Brahim Haggiag (center, with arm outstretched) as revolutionary leader Ali La Pointe in a scene from Gillo Pontecorvo's THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1965). Photo courtesy of British Film Institute/Rialto Pictures..