This is the grave of Henry Demarest Lloyd. Born in 1847 in New York City, Lloyd grew up in a middle class family. It was a religious family and they went to Henry Ward Beecher's church, who became a major influence on Lloyd's reformist vision...
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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.
This is the grave of Osborn Elliott. Born in 1924 in New York City, Elliott grew up rich. His father was an investment banker, his mother a real estate agent.
This is the grave of Gee Gee Geyer. Born in 1935 in Chicago, Geraldine Geyer grew up there. A story she liked to tell was about how she hated bullies. Evidently, her father grew up in the Irish neighborhoods of Chicago and he did everything...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer does the incredibly rare thing and actually speaks truth about Donald Trump: A more-than-occasional arrival in the email these days is a question expressed.
Good piece by Osita Nwanevu about using the infrastructure plan to provide another key piece of what props up the nation: local journalism. And it is indeed crumbling. Unfortunately, our.
I'm not sure if McArdle is clueless or is laughing at all the journalists who have lost their jobs when big capital decides to buy up, say, an irreverent sports site and then it all falls apart when they are clueless and everyone gets fired...
Scott referred to the Deadspin disaster earlier today. To me, this and so many other closings of quality publications leads to a broader question of whether journaistic outlets can even.
Greg Sargent has been on a tear for the past forty-eight hours as he discusses the non-partisan media's inability to handle Trump. Yesterday, he wrote that: ... the Justice Department’s.
A few weeks ago, I posted about Mass Effect: Andromeda and in the comments we started talking about a piece published in The Atlantic that bemoaned the popularity of narrative...
Yes, we know that it is a huge error to talk about the working class as if it were all white people. There's another huge error: talking about the working.
You may have heard that the International Business Times has laid off a whole bunch of editors and reporters. Is IBT cutting back? Is it in trouble? No, of course.