This is the grave of Mary Ann Lee. Born in 1823 in Philadelphia, Lee became one of the first American ballet dancers, if the claim is more debatable than her gravestone suggests. After all, her dances were not solo shows. It's not clear to me...
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This is like a proposed Mark Halperin political novel come to life: In one month, Sanford says he will decide whether he has enough support to mount a primary challenge.
As recently noted in this space, Professor Amy Wax has recently made more racisms. Various wingers -- including fellow at the Ed Whelan Institute For Ethics And Zillow-Based Conspiracy Theories.
For example, you would find the penal experience much less enjoyable than this: In 2008, a supervisor at the county jail here alerted staff members to the needs of an inmate serving an 18-month sentence for sex crimes involving a minor. Jeffrey Epstein, he wrote...
This is the grave of Sylvia Beach. Born a preacher's daughter in Maryland in 1887, Nancy Beach changed her name to Sylvia as a young woman. She came from a.
Because of course: President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on a Somali-born congresswoman Friday while reversing his previous criticisms of a North Carolina crowd who chanted “send her back,” defending.
Photo by Heather Zabriskie on Unsplash The new shortest unit of time is the time it takes a discussion about slavery between two Republicans to jump the rails and a tank full of sharks that do indeed have lasers on their heads and crash into...
On the first day of my Concentration-Camp-Resisting Vacation, I focused on speaking to every possible random American I could about the children being held without parents on the border. It.
Once again, neoliberalism has truly been defeated, as Tom Philpott explains On Wednesday, the United States Environmental Protection Agency doubled down on one of the most controversial environmental deregulation moves.
"My Perfect Sex Life" sounds like a thankfully unreleased Smiths album, or maybe an early draft of a Dave Eggers novel. What a time to be alive. Two of Epstein’s victims have claimed they were forced by Epstein to have sex with Dershowitz, which he...
Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia poses with his family in his chambers before court ceremonies on Friday September 26, 1986 in Washington, D.C. Pictured are, front row, from left:.
There's no question about Trump's extremely disturbing and openly fascist attacks on Ilhan Omar. But they also need a little context. There are some parts of this story that are.