Let's get back to LGM's new favorite pastime, me putting up images from old movies and asking you to provide context to them. This is from the same Soviet movie that I can't remember as the last image. It is filled with good stuff. I have...
In addition to reiterating his belief that it is bad when people exchange money for goods and services if the goods in question originate in other countries, Trump had further.
The New York Post this week ran an article highly critical of Donald Trump’s chief negotiator for Israel-Palestine, Iran, and Russia’s war on Ukraine, Steve Witkoff. Witkoff is a real.
Maia Mandel has an excellent post about the underpinnings and impact of Trump's trade war: So it’s just not true that the problem is insufficient national savings to fund investment in manufacturing because of depressed wages - the US does have sufficient capital. In fact, it...
When I teach the Triangle Fire, I note that in fact, nothing has changed at all. In 1911, 146 workers in New York City died making your clothing. In 2013,.
I am not sympathetic to the voters who say "I didn't vote for this." When Donald Trump told them, actually yes you did, it might be the first time in.
Long time LGM friend Michael Hiltzik notes how Republicans are racing ahead with their dreams of returning child labor to the nation. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has discovered a problem with the anti-immigration policies that once made him a GOP star. Luckily he has a solution....
Anyone who supports Donald Trump is some combination of incredibly stupid and an objectively horrible person. President Donald Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as pope as the mourning.
This is the grave of Mike Royko. Born in 1932 in Chicago, Royko grew up in the Polish and Ukrainian immigrant communities that had settled in that city. He wasn't.
There are officially at least two Trump cabinet members who don't believe in germ theory. In the case of the angry drunk in charge of the Pentagon, this is literally because he cannot see them with the naked eye: Cabinet officials in charge of two of...
I saw two excellent shows last week. I finally saw the great Rodney Crowell, at the Narrows Center in Fall River. I'm not sure why I had never seen him,.
This Sunday, Romania will hold the first round of their presidential election. If that sounds familiar to you, well, it should; I previewed their last attempt to hold a presidential.