Trump Explains George Washington’s Air Superiority Strategy
An exhausted George Washington leads his troops after their historic victory at Trenton Airport.Edward Percy Moran (c. 1914) Our commander-in-chief said yesterday that the Continental Army “suffered the bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware, and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown.” Fine. But then he said that they…
Bikini Hut Loses Landmark First Amendment Appeal for Female Empowerment
This is Raquel Welch as Loana in the classic 1966 remake of One Million BC. I am including it purely for illustrative purposes to show what a barista wearing a bikini might look like.20th Century Fox Up in Everett, Washington, an establishment called Bikini Hut employs baristas who, um, wear bikinis. The city was unamused…
How Decriminalizing Sex Work Became a 2020 Campaign Issue
Erik Mcgregor/Zuma When Julia Salazar, the 28-year-old Democratic Socialist state senator for New York’s 18th district, was campaigning last year, one of her most reliable set of volunteers was a group that has been largely cast out of mainstream political coalitions. Hundreds of sex workers and sex work advocates signed up to canvass for Salazar…
Stop Building a Spaceship to Mars and Just Plant Some Damn Trees
borchee/Getty When it comes to climate change research, most studies bear bad news regarding the looming, very real threat of a warming planet and the resulting devastation that it will bring upon the Earth. But a new study, out Thursday in the journal Science, offers a sliver of hope for the world: A group of…
No One Called the United States “America” Until It Became an Empire
Battle of Manila Bay, Philippines, May 1, 1898, the first major engagement of the Spanish–American War. Those are Spanish vessels on fire. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Adapted from How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. America, as a shorthand for the United States, has a way of raising…
How Plastics Are Clogging the Ocean, Even Before You Toss that Bottle Away
“Pellets have been around and have been lost since plastic started to be produced,” says Madeleine Berg, a project manager for Fidra, which is working to reduce plastic waste and chemical pollution. And as plastic production continues to rise, researchers worry that the threat to beaches and coastal regions is growing worse. The Gulf Coast of…