The story of the Puget Sound orca carrying around her dead calf for over 2 weeks is incredibly sad and moved a lot of people. That pod of orcas, one of the defining animals of the Northwest, is in danger of extinction because they aren't...
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Sure, this Washington Post article on Jimmy Carter's unpretentious lifestyle is a bit of a puff piece, but who really cares. I actually find several points interesting here, as Carter.
This is the grave of Jackie Robinson. There isn't much point of doing a biography of Robinson here. He's so famous and his story is so well-known that I'd just.
The University of Akron's nickname is the Zips. And "zip" describes the quality of education at the school under its administration's grand new "ideas." The University of Akron will phase out 80 degree programs, about 20 percent of what it now offers, in part, to...
We need some more discussion of Aretha. Here's a bunch of remembrances. All Songs Considered. Turns out she liked playing a little golf. Her episode of Murphy Brown. Christgau. Finally,.
This article about how White House Counsel Don McGahn has been extensively cooperating with Mueller's obstruction of justice investigation deserves some sort of Pulitzer for dry understatement: The White House.
With showier executions! Make it into a TV show: The Apprentice Executioner! The senior White House official acknowledged that the step against Brennan had been prepared in late July, when Sanders first said Trump was considering it....
Well, they can't be accused of having shame: Election officials in a rural southwest Georgia county are defending a plan to suddenly close seven of the county’s nine polling places.
This the grave of John O'Hara. Born in 1905 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania to a well-off Irish-American family, O'Hara was a bit of an outsider in the elite circles his family.
As you would expect, there has been a lot of great writing about the departed titan Aretha Franklin -- see, for starters, Wesley Morris, Ann Powers, Carl Wilson, Rob Harvilla, Robert Christgau, and Amanda Petrusich. In addition to being as great a singer as American...
Ygelsias has a good column about conservative "intellectual" Kevin Williamson's screed about Elizabeth Warren's codetermination proposal, which he does not remotely understand. He concludes with a perfect description of the.
Some of you may be wondering where the next Political History of the Future entry is. The answer is that there's going to be a delay this month, first because.