This is the grave of Carter Harrison, IV. Born in 1860 in Chicago, Harrison grew up in the Chicago political class. His father was after all Carter Harrison III, the mayor of Chicago and king of machine politics. Harrison was brought up to be a...
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I am sympathetic to some victims of even fairly obvious scams. This is the other kind: A man in Rhode Island bought his wife a Donald Trump-branded watch as a.
The Trump administration has fully (and properly) lost the presumption of good faith in its AEA deportation process on the part of a majority of a Court, including four Republicans:.
One way you can tell the Republican Party is a full-on personality cult is that his flaks all talk like AI machines programmed solely with Trump's social media feeds: In March, Axios reported that Donald Trump’s Oval Office had begun to resemble an Oscar night gift suite,...
On their own extremely immoral terms, there is a small shred of integrity here: House Republican spending hawks blocked the party’s giant tax-and-spending bill on Friday, delivering President Trump a.
Nice explainer on why modern cars are safer (for the driver and the passengers) than older vehicles: https://youtu.be/dXdpi08fmHI?si=G-90pPnWNvNrNx0p I am actually a little bit surprised that we haven't yet seen.
Interesting rundown of what we're looking at when we're thinking about "Sixth Generation Fighters," including a quote from the great Bill Sweetman: Put all this together and you get planes that look like old-fashioned bombers. Mr Sweetman compares the hulking J-36, with massive wings and cavernous...
This is a guest post by Matt Guthrie. In recent weeks I have been talking in Cheryl’s Week in Review posts and some others about Tommy, who walked out of.
The dystopian sci-fi pitch sounds a little to on-the-nose to really work: Kristi Noem reportedly wants the U.S. citizenship process to play out in front of the cameras. The Homeland.
Combine a guy who palpably hates the sport he's in charge of and a Donald Trump courtier and whammo you get terrible policy decisions: If anybody ever earned it, Pete Rose has certainly earned his place on Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list. Rose guaranteed...
Oh men, men, men: Cars and meat are major factors driving a gender gap in greenhouse gas emissions, new research suggests. Men emit 26% more planet-heating pollution than women from transport and.
Human Rights Watch has a pretty comprehensive and damning report on how American employers use algorithms to oppress workers. It's long and very informative. Here's the beginning: The future of.