Tag: history
“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of...
We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation , about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn , chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States .
How Russia and China learned to love their border
Once one of the world’s most militarized frontiers, the Russia-China border along the Amur River Basin shows how a long-running territorial dispute can evolve from confrontation to integration.
Ritual, power, and the weekend arena
The roar of a crowd that believes its collective voice matters stands in quiet contrast to spectacles that ask only for attention, passivity, and allegiance.
The conservative ‘plan’ to dismantle public schools is entering the home...
The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education.
Scientists prove extensive Viking silver trade with Abbasid Empire from British...
The team can now date the influx of silver coinage into Viking realms from the Muslim empires of the Middle East much earlier than had previously been thought.
The corrosive delusion of progress and the American dream
Most crises trace back to identifiable decisions and actions. Even the lead-up to the two world wars could have been disrupted numerous...
Archaeology can now tell us how people have muffled and challenged...
Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very long time spans on a global scale.
Renaming The Gulf of Mexico isn’t a laughing matter but part...
It reflects a disregard for historical truth, an aggressive assertion of U.S. superiority, and the continuation of exploitative colonialist practices that harm both the environment and Latin American people.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.