This is my today.
Updated below Here. When I originally linked to Dylan Farrow's NYT letter I did a little digging, and was surprised to discover that in all the back and forth regarding.
I knew--in an abstract way--that calling that one gigantic, long-necked, long-tailed, small-headed dinosaur “Brontosaurus” was wrong. I knew that there was a dinosaur out there who was Bronto-like, but was.
I suppose there aren't a whole lot of places in Russia where horrible things haven't happened. But still: History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who freed the serfs in 1861, just two years before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in...
“Horse-Meat ‘Worms’ Fool Frogs,” Popular Science, 1940
Whenever events force the New York Times to acknowledge other American cities actually exist, you can bet it's going to be larded up with some extremely condescending provincialism, so I.
The only quibble I have with Waldman's essay is that he doesn't put the Republican deification of corporate heads in historical context. Republicans have ALWAYS deified business owners. During the mid-twentieth century they had to mask that rhetoric by talking about respect for organized labor and...
I know that ambassadorships to comfortable nations of low to middling strategic importance have been used to reward friends of presidents for a long time, but it would be nice.
Good news for working women who become pregnant: While New Jersey and New York City were the latest to pass workplace protections for pregnant workers, a new state has taken.
Debtors prison still exists, just under a different name of "not paying court costs." Luckily, the ACLU is fighting this.
As I've explained recently, all Republican health care proposals share two salient features: 1)they're some degree of terrible, and 2)no Republican legislator of any influence has any desire to pass.
The always useful Executed Today reminds us of another lovely event in American history: On this date in 1902, two African-American U.S. Army privates were hanged before a crowd of.