Kind of an unfortunate day for Obama's climate change speech, not that it is his fault. I'll distract my attention from my outrage at the overturning of a huge part of the civil rights movement for a moment to make a couple of notes. First,...
Author: Erik Loomis
It seems the Roberts Court also made a film expressing its views on American race relations and the proper order between the races. You can watch it below.
It's worth having an open thread just to express anger and frustration over our Plessy-nostalgic Supreme Court ruling the most important section of the most important piece of civil rights.
Not only does reasonable moderate Sam Alito show us that there is no difference between the two parties and elections don't matter and therefore because of Edward Snowden we should all vote for Gary Johnson or whoever the Green Party spits up in 2016, but...
The labor historian Jefferson Cowie on why the government desperately needs to recommit to and strengthen the Fair Labor Standards Act: It’s true that we are in the middle of.
It doesn't really surprise me that the big whiskey corporations are doing such a good job of pivoting to the demand for higher quality hooch.* They have the preexisting capital.
There's a certain class of conservatives that love to blame postmodernism for everything. One of them is David Brooks, who blames it for the decline in the humanities: The humanist’s job was to cultivate this ground — imposing intellectual order upon it, educating the emotions...
This is a guest post from Colin Snider of Americas South and North. As many by now know, the last 10 days have seen an incredible degree of social mobilization.
This is a great overview of attempts to suppress the Native American vote after they received full citizenship rights in 1924. In short, they were treated by western states not.
Yeah, they look way more awesome and beautiful than anyone else's Polaroids.
Former Providence mayor (for 21 years!) and now talk show blowhard Buddy Cianci, in the New York Times magazine: Q:You once said you were convicted of being mayor of Providence..
A fascinating discussion of mid-19th century women who used their opportunity to pose for daguerreotypes and the first photographs to show themselves breastfeeding. And this is a great collection of.