It's the anniversary of the Works Progress Administration today and I tweeted out my This Day in Labor History post about it, as I do most days. People love the WPA and we need another WPA today, so it got a little attention. One core...
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Greetings from Toronto Pierson (correction: Pearson) airport! I just read Erik's take on Ted Kennedy, which is overall nicely balanced but also a bit incomplete. Erik significantly understates Kennedy's pivotal.
The environmental historian Chris Sellers explores this issue for Earth Day. In the 1950s, many Republicans were among the founding environmentalists in Congress. And of course, in the late 1960s.
Newt Gingrich evidently now advocates for socialism, at least when it comes to the ownership of professional sports teams.
Fred Hiatt sees fit to give the EMP nutjobs (no less a statesman than Newt!) a platform: I write this now because of my concern for national security and our.
Good luck with this fellas: Newt Gingrich has a crazy idea. Sources close to his dwindling campaign say he is in talks with Rick Perry in hopes of getting him.
Chuck Norris edition: For my wife, Gena, and I, we sincerely believe former Speaker Newt Gingrich is the answer to most of those questions and deserves our endorsement and vote. We agree with our friend and governor of the great state of Texas, Rick Perry,...
I have a piece up at the Prospect about the attacks on the federal judiciary increasingly made by several Republican candidates, all of whom apparently have yet to be informed.
I am sad, and even more sad. What I want from this year's GOP primary is entertainment, and if Romney wins Iowa it's going to be the dullest primary season.
In one of the best blog posts of the year, Charles Pierce just destroys Jon Meachem's analysis of Newt Gingrich. In part, beginning with quoting Meachem: But by the September-October debates, Newt had grown impressive "by standing back and offering a Wise Man's view of...
Newt Gingrich is an embrassment to the historical profession. Not only is he corrupt, but his dissertation defended Belgian rule of the Congo, which really sums up the man. He.
Newt clarifies his comments from last week that poor students should replace janitors in schools. They shouldn't do all the work. Just jobs like cleaning the bathrooms. And doesn't this.