This 1934 footage is unnatural! Liked the League of Nations reference here.
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I mentioned last week that I had written the conclusion for the brand new book from Haymarket Press, Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston. I interviewed the e
Once you’re fully vaccinated, your chances of getting a serious case of COVID-19 are vanishingly small: The clinical and real-world evidence for the vaccines is now pretty clear: They are extrem
There is a weird tendency in many liberal spaces — the comments here included — to conflate “trusting the science” with “trusting the specific recommendations of the CDC.” But in fact the CDC is a bureaucracy staffed by human beings, and as human beings are wont to do it is being misleading about the science […]
Hey NYC mayoral candidates, how much does it cost these days to buy a place in Brooklyn? Let’s ask Shaun Donovan, whose resume would seem to indicate that asking him to answer this wouldn’
I had high hopes for the French case to hold the U.S. accountable for dropping Agent Orange in Vietnam. This was for two reasons. First is that the U.S. is morally culpable for the crimes against huma
We have known for a long time that the lightly regulated pollution in American agriculture was deleterious to human health. Now we have some data to help us understand just how many lives this costs a year: The smell of hog feces was overwhelming, Elsie Herring said. The breezes that wafted from the hog farm […]
The weather is getting warm and people are grilling. It goes without saying that charcoal is a great way to cook. I’m not going to get into the debate over whether charcoal is that much better t
I’m rock n’ roll, and you’re golf Apparently our B-1B fleet isn’t quite broken yet… Euro defense planning is struggling to achieve coherence… Covering the withdrawa
The tiny remaining remnant of genuine Never Trump conservatives is pointing out that there’s something happening here, and what it is is precisely clear. Amanda Carpenter notes that if Liz Cheney — who was an all-in Trump supporter until January 6th — hadn’t piped up, the new GOP consensus that, going forward, no victory by […]
If you’re wondering where the specific insane conspiracy theories propounded by Trump’s whatever-the-opposite-of-crack-is Legal Strike Force came from, here you go: No candidate agreed to
An old favorite of mine for tonight, with an emphasis on old. This brilliantly creative 1909 film is a lot of fun. Hard out there for the smoker.