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Celebs Want You – to Vote to Preserve Democracy

Let the stars be your guide to which U.S. Senate races you should place your bets on.

September 25, 2024

Put Your Money – and/or Your Time – Where Your Vote Is, 2.0

A small donation to, say, the Anti-Psychopath PAC, can go a long way toward preserving democracy.

September 19, 2024

If She Wins, Will Kamala Harris Continue Biden’s Robust Trust-Busting?

The Dems managed to avoid repeating the debacle of Chicago, 1968 — now, can a unified party seal the deal?

August 24, 2024

Heat Death – Or, That Time You Were Meant to Discuss ‘1984’ on Its Glorious Anniversary but Had Some Kind of Psychotic Break Instead

When you’re in the second person, who’s the paranoid?

August 15, 2024

The Truth Is Out There: Rereading the Warren Commission Report and Re-Viewing Zapruder

Like so much else, the cyber toilet paper of posting boards, IM platforms, and blogs has ruined the good old American conspiracy theory.

by Michael Atkinson

August 13, 2024

What Would Studs Terkel Make of ‘Essential Workers’?

On the golden anniversary of the labor stalwart’s iconic book, “Working,” we explore what American workers have lost since 1974 — and how some are getting it back.

by Robert Hennelly

August 9, 2024

The Three Faces of Grieve

AIDS took a toll that has not yet been finally tallied.

by Jeff Weinstein

August 8, 2024

The Way We Were – A Child’s Garden of Watergate

Fifty years after Richard Nixon resigned, America might find itself confronting another outlaw POTUS.

August 2, 2024

CULTURAL COMMERCE ARCHIVES

Soundtrack to the Watergate Break-In: Ziggy, the Stones, Tina & Ike, Cheech & Chong, ZZ, ‘Brandy,’ the Fillmore, and More

Perusing the vinyl bins to find the music that accompanied the downfall of a president.

July 30, 2024

The GOP Crowned Trump Just in Time for Biden to Anoint Harris

Milwaukee was like a Trump Super Bowl, or a Trump Comic Con — but Biden’s withdrawal sets the stage for the Democrats to get serious in Chicago.

July 22, 2024