Director of human rights commission compares today to the ‘60s
“We are in dark but different times. Racism is on the rise. Bigotry is on the rise.”
Berry Craig
Berry Craig is a professor emeritus of history at West KY Community College, and an author of seven books and co-author of two more. (Read the rest on the Contributors page.)
Arlington, KY
KY AFL-CIO makes history in endorsement of Beshear
Earliest endorsement ever of a candidate by the union
The puppet now running the House
In the end, Matt Gaetz and his buds told McCarthy to jump, and he asked “How high?”
Comparing Kevin McCarthy to ‘Silent Cal’ Coolidge – really?
Maybe comparing McCarthy to Calvin Coolidge – whose policies led to the Great Depression – isn’t the best idea.
Will Congress use the 14th Amendment on Trump?
And what happens if they don’t? Jesse Wegman of the NYT and historian Brian Clardy weigh in.
2022 – the ‘year of the union’ in Louisville
Unions are alive and well in Kentucky’s largest city – and not just at factories
Historian says Trump is not “toast,” will be the nominee
Retired professor John Hennen isn’t ready to jump on the Trump-is-toast bandwagon. The historian doubts MAGA base voters, nearly all of them white, are ready to forsake their Great White Hope.
The Democrats of the past and the Republicans of the present
Most insider-written institutional histories tend to be more hagiography than history. Kenny Fogle’s History of the Kentucky Democratic Party isn’t.
Pearl Harbor and The Beast
“All the people not expecting it. Not knowing what to do. Not knowing where to go.”
Guess who canceled out the over-65 vote? The youth vote.
This election wasn’t a red wave or a blue wave. It was a youth wave.
Pompeo the pathetic pander bear
Who’s the most dangerous person in the world? According to Mike Pompeo, it’s not Xi or Kim or Putin; it is the leader of a teacher’s union.
A historian describes the REAL first Thanksgiving
On this Thanksgiving Day 2022, Berry Craig lays out for us what that first Thanksgiving was REALLY like.
Wieder was ‘quietly confident’ Amendment 2 would fail
Kentucky is among the reddest of Republican red states. But Tammara Wieder was quietly confident that Kentuckians would vote down GOP-backed constitutional amendments to ban abortion and to empower the legislature to call itself into special session.
A poli-sci professor weighs in on the midterms and Trump running again
Dr. James Clinger of Murray State University gives his analysis of the midterm results, and looks at Trump running again.
Union voted in at C-J, welcomed by state AFL-CIO
Journalists at the Courier-Journal in Louisville voted on Friday to affiliate with the NewsGuild union, a member union of the Communications Workers of America.
An election potpourri – including a serving of crow
I couldn’t be happier that I was wrong about the midterm elections. But we’re not out of the woods yet.
