From the Babylonian captivity to the Trail of Tears, the history of rulers forcibly removing or even annihilating subject peoples is a long and sordid one, but the scope and brutality of Nazism necessitated the creation of new terminology. “New conceptions require new terms” was the concise judgment of exiled lawyer Rafael Lemkin in Axis […]
In 1911 a nearly penniless widow who called herself Katharine Gibbs sold her jewelry, scraped a $1,000 loan together, and bought a ramshackle “business school” in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, that taught typing and shorthand to young women seeking office jobs, one of the few lines of decently paying work for them a century ago. […]
Daniel Clarke-Pounder, a 24-year-old progressive activist, was arrested in South Carolina this week for setting a lot of Tesla chargers on fire with Molotov cocktails. He scrawled “F*** Trump” and “Long live the Ukraine” on the pavement. The incident appeared to copy an arson weeks earlier in Loveland, Colorado, which saw 42-year-old Justin Grace Nelson, […]
Bernie Sanders and AOC headline a rally in Tempe, Arizona as part of a three-day, five-city swing through Western states where they took aim at President Trump, Elon Musk and Democrats.
Yes, I watched it after 13 hours on the interstate. And yes, the kids were making a racket in the next room. But the new Netflix movie by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, of Avengers: Endgame fame, would have been a disaster in even the most tranquil of circumstances. Screen it in a one-man space […]
I’m at the age where a lot of my contemporaries have children just starting out, and despite every economic indication coming out of Hollywood, a lot of them want to work in show business. Every now and then, since I have been a writer and showrunner, I’m asked by friends if I’ll talk to their […]
Overall, white voters (who made up 71% of the electorate in 2024) overwhelmingly voted for President Donald Trump by a 15-point margin (57%-42%). But as NBC’s Steve Kornacki highlighted in his latest polling, when you drill down by gender and education, there are “pronounced gender and education gaps” among white voters. White men with and […]
Nobody needs to do one-handed handstand pushups. If you’re strong enough to push yourself off the ground on one hand while in a candlestick position, then you can do so many other more productive, more conventional exercises. But sometimes, you want to give yourself a challenge to show off. Sometimes, you gotta pop out, as […]