Tag: newspapers

Newspaper Unionbusting

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 29, 2020

This Prospect story of how the owners of the Cleveland Plain Dealer hate the Newspaper Guild so much that they half killed the paper of one of the nation’s most important cities is just infuriating. The Guild was very strong at the Plain Dealer for a half-century. And ownership today just couldn’t abide it. The […]

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The Tenuous Nature of Online Archives

By Erik Loomis

On September 1, 2016

If historians are going to keep writing awesome political histories and other histories, we are going to need access to primary sources. Increasingly those primary sources are online. But as we know,

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Keyword Searches of Old Newspapers

By Erik Loomis

On March 8, 2016

San Francisco harbor, 1851 This is a pretty amazing project, allowing you to do keyword searchers of old American newspapers all at one site. So if you want to look up newspapers talking about the Pin

Birmingham

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 22, 2015

Birmingham, Alabama is 73 percent African-American and of course a history of some of the nation’s most notorious racial violence. The Birmingham News now has 0 black reporters.

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Warren Harding, The Second Son of God

By Erik Loomis

On October 16, 2013

I am going through my old blog and finding some classics that deserve reprint. Yesterday’s Pierce post was one. Another is the obituary of Warren Harding in the Eatonville (WA) Dispatch. I found

Winifred There's the utter ignorance of basic fact, PLUS the incredibly dumb belief that without some magic "loophole" the SCOTUS wingnuts would have been powerless to overturn it. All asserted with the utmost...
Undead constitutionalism · June 26, 2022
Teddy007 One may want to pay attention to the Supreme Court this next October. It will be hearing the affirmative action cases form Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. If one wants to be abortion legal and...
Hawley: Roe will help Republicans by compelling people to leave theocratic hellhole states like this one · June 26, 2022
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Undead constitutionalism · June 26, 2022
Helmut Monotreme I feel like shelling it with white phosphorus and napalm would be more thematically appropriate, and wouldn't poison the ground for generations. His corpse would do that regardless.
Gustavo Petro · June 26, 2022
Derelict Already dealt with. The individual states have the right to closely regulate what drugs their citizens may have access to. Abortion-inducing drugs will simply be declared contraband and be...
Undead constitutionalism · June 26, 2022