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Traffic in Souls

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On March 12, 2012
Given the day's rather bizarre turn here, it seems like a good enough time to remind all of you with Netflix account that Traffic in Souls, the ridiculous 1913 film promoting the white slavery fears dominant in America during these years, is available for streaming....

Pathetic

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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 on a ticket before the Republican convention in August. "Gingrich insiders hope forming a predetermined...

Chavez

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On March 12, 2012

Callum McCormick has a very thoughtful essay on the legacy of Hugo Chavez from a leftist perspective. The upshot: While a defeat would for Chavez would be a setback for.

Knights in Shining Armour

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On March 12, 2012
Laura Augustín has an interesting piece at The Naked Anthropologist critiquing men like Nick Kristof who go around the world playing the role of the good white man saving brown women from evil brown men. Men at the higher end of the evolutionary scale: That...

Achilles Heel

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On March 12, 2012

I maintain that rising gas prices are the biggest threat to Obama's reelection. New polling by the Washington Post suggests this is probably correct. I do think that, no matter.

Make Pullman a National Park

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On March 11, 2012
There's an effort to turn the site of the 1894 Pullman Strike into a national park site. You should support this. I have not yet discussed the Pullman Strike in a This Day in Labor History post, but in short, the Panic of 1893 cut...

Labor and Progressives

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On March 11, 2012

Ned Resnikoff really gets after Jessica Flanigan for misunderstanding the relationship between the labor movement and Progressives of the early 20th century. Flanigan: Internal to progressivism there is a tension.

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