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 in Brazil. On the surface, it began with a twenty-[Brazilian]-cent hike in bus fares in...
Author: Erik Loomis
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. Admittedly, they got you on very petty offenses. A: Oh, it was nickel and dime....
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.
Evidently, there's a South American plant that uses gigantic spines to ensnare sheep until they starve to death, at which point decompose and fertilize the plant. I assume this will.
It's fairly unlikely that I'll read George Packer's new book, The Unwinding of America. But I did read this excerpt, presumably from the introduction. Packer bemoans the decline of the fabric that held American society together, leading to today's plutocracy, individual aggrandizement, and dysfunctional government....
I've talked about this issue before a couple of times, so I'm really glad to see the New York Times report on the awful environmental impact of unregulated marijuana production.
On June 21, 1877, ten alleged members of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society blamed for labor radicalism in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania, were executed. The Molly Maguires.
Major bummer that the Worldport at JFK is going to be demolished. I suppose it was pretty well inevitable given the space considerations at the airport, but it's a pretty bloody cool piece of Cold War architecture. It's also a good time to note that...
While this piece is perhaps a bit too condescending to middle-aged homeowners, it does get at a very real problem. The entire structure of the postwar housing market is extremely.
West Virginia turns 150 today. Forged in the rejection of treason in defense of slavery, the state developed into a medieval fiefdom of the coal industry with much of the.