D. Boon, R.I.P. And thanks to Noon for the copy of We Jam Econo he bought me when he joined the blog back during the Harding administration.
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In 1975, Charlie Rich presented the Country Music Awards Performer of the Year Award. After very slowly reading the nominees, he opened the envelope, saw it was John Denver, pulled.
In the stories we tell about music and the South during the 1960s and 1970s, a common theme is that music was the place where race didn't count, where white.
Marshall Steinbaum and Kavya Vaghul have put together a really interesting set of interactive maps on the geography of student debt. There's an introductory essay here. One element of the student debt story that has already been explored is that borrowers with the lowest student...
With two relatively small caveats, this Monica Potts profile of the homeless of the Silicon Valley is outstanding. A majority of the homeless population in Palo Alto—93 percent—ends up sleeping.
Feb 2, 2014; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson (3) celebrates with the Lombardi Trophy after beating the Denver Broncos 43-8 in Super.
According to the EPA, the drinking water in Hoosick Falls (a town in Rensselaer County, NY near the Vermont border) is not merely unsafe to drink but unsafe to cook with, because of pollution from a local factory: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a...
Elizabeth Kolbert has a good discussion on the end of Miami due to climate change. There's almost no way around this conclusion, not with Miami's limestone allowing water to flow.
That's what Hamilton Nolan called Menard's, a Midwestern home improvement store chain. It's CEO, John Menard is an anti-union extremist and is close friends with Scott Walker. For years, it's.
In a nation with so few industrial jobs remaining, in a nation that has ignored the plight of working class people without college educations, and in a nation where a robust welfare state is the provenance of slackers and those people, it's hardly surprising that...
I've been long enough in Rhode Island that I've started to neglect the politics of my long time home of New Mexico. Luckily, Governor Susana Martinez, frequently mentioned as a.
The Public Editor calls for systematic change in the light of the second massive botch job from Apuzzo and Schmidt: She’s right. Erik Wemple of The Washington Post, who wrote.