This is the grave of Linus Pauling. Born in 1901 in Portland, Oregon, Pauling grew up without much. His father ran a drugstore and they moved around Oregon for those.
On September 4, 1907, about 500 white working men in Bellingham, Washington rioted against the arrival of Punjabi laborers in their border town. They wanted to round them up and.
Greetings from the doldrums of summer, LGM! I've had a rather exciting August. I went to Seattle, did a Worldcon, saw them throw the fish at Pike Place Market, had.
Version 1.0.0 John Ganz observes that Trump's obsessions are a striking illustration of how important the late 80s and early 90s are in explaining the current American political trajectory: If.
Last night I watched Denial, the 2016 film about the David Irving-Deborah Lipstadt libel trial. It's a pretty good film about an extremely important subject, which is the crisis of.
Just wanted to quickly build on Farley's post from earlier today. It's the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb and that deserves more play, though as anniversaries move from beyond.
Interesting, if somewhat puzzling, article in the NYT on the last surviving Japanese veterans of World War II: Kunshiro Kiyozumi is a small man with gray hair and a stooped.
Krugman issues a Tokyo storm warning: So U.S. consumers will soon be suffering. But why are U.S. manufacturers so upset with the Japan deal? Because in combination with Trump’s other.
