It's been a week since Us, Jordan Peele's brilliant, messy follow-up to Get Out, opened in theaters, and I think it's time for the LGM commentariat to get their thinking caps on about it. Us is the sort of film that is almost as much fun...
https://youtu.be/xMcvN7XTh-k Several things are going on here, some obvious and some not so much. First, the point of cutting aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador is to exacerbate the.
On March 31, 1840, Martin Van Buren issued an executive order granting the 10-hour day on federal projects. This early critical moment in the fight for a dignified work day.
This piece by Traister is definitive, but I would particularly like to highlight this part: A young Joe Biden was reliably anti-abortion, claiming that Roe v. Wade “went too far” and that he did not believe that “a woman has the sole right to say what...
This is the grave of Robert Smith. Born in 1757 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Smith joined the Revolutionary Army soon after the war started and fought in the Battle of Brandywine..
[caption id="attachment_103467" align="aligncenter" width="531"] "Heavy Metal"[/caption] I use Amazon Music as my main music player and aggregator these days. I'm always looking for new music to add to my library.
As Jamelle Bouie says, Reagan et al. showed that stonewalling and brazening it out works: The particular twists and turns of Iran-contra don’t mirror the Russia scandal’s. The politics, however, do. As with Trump and Russia, the White House itself was defiant. “Admiral Poindexter and Colonel...
Welp: I found my way to the holding room for the speakers, where everyone was chatting, taking photos, and getting ready to speak to the hundreds of voters in the.
My guess is that X is a rather large number. I found my way to the holding room for the speakers, where everyone was chatting, taking photos, and getting ready.
Marcy Wheeler's twitter is a fun read. Also too, he never said his letter was a summary of the report, just a summary of the conclusions of the report, which is "nearly 400 pages long," not counting indexes and appendixes. In conclusion, Russia is a land...
This article about how a doctor's strike nearly killed the single-payer system that Canadians are now (justly!) proud of is good and useful. There are a couple of important takeaways.
UK lawmakers rejected Theresa May's Brexit deal for a third time on Friday, likely killing it off for good and plunging the country further into political uncertainty. The defeat of.