This is the grave of Sam Goody. Born in 1904 in New York City, Sam Gutowitz grew up in the city and started running stores, part of the Jewish merchant class. His father was a tailor and his parents had migrated from Poland. A common enough...
Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti on June 7, 1917, in Steubenville, Ohio, to Italian father Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti (1894–1967) and Italian-American mother Angela Crocetti (née Barra; 1897–1966). Gaetano, who was a barber, was.
I very, very sincerely hope that your Christmas day (at whatever level of observance) was better than the president's: Christmas Eve found President Donald Trump in good humor, sitting in.
The papers the federal government holds relating to Jeffrey Epstein are trickling out, reluctantly and incompetently, as the Trump administration executes so many duties relating to justice and the Justice Department. They are a morass. For one thing, there are simply so many of them, from...
Some details on last night's strikes: A Defense Department official said Nigeria’s government approved the Christmas Day strikes and worked with the U.S. to carry them out. Trump’s post offered.
Andrew Gelman pointed me to his post about former Columbia president Lee Bollinger, which in turn led me to this amazing piece of journalism that everybody should read, about Columbia's.
On December 26, 1996, the government of South Korea issued new repressive labor laws. The South Korean working class rose up in revolt, leading to an enormous strike that challenged the legitimacy of the Korean government. South Korean and thus Korean labor history is a story...
I had planned not to post about horrible things happening. It's been a lovely mostly clear day here, warmish for the season, and the river is going down. Somehow the.
Mohamed Nohassi - Unsplash Man yelling slurs accidentally set himself on fire while trying to burn house down, police say Everywhere, every day. Tony McDaniel, 47, is charged with three.
Whatever one thinks of how the NFL season has played out, the big winner today is the National Basketball Association, as the NFL scheduled three games that looked good-to-excellent on paper and have minor-to-no significance in practice, except for those of us in our fantasy finals...
This is an open thread. This is one of the many William Butler Yeats poems that mean a lot to me, although like many of his poems it has not.
This is the grave of Len Ford. Born in 1926 in Washington, D.C., Ford grew up in the stable Black families that the federal government provided. In short, the federal.