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Quilts and Prints at Schlow: Young People Respond to Gee’s Bend Art

A group of 11 young people from ages 10 to 16 recently combined art, creative writing, reduction block making and quilting to create a show to be featured at Schlow Centre Region Library through Decem... read more

Art As Political Resistance

When I asked what it is we should be demanding and from whom, Glover’s response was simple and poignant: “It’s always been about demanding truth and justice for all people.” Art has the ... to the sto... read more

Quilts of Personality

The Quilts of Gee's Bend, which recently opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is a telling example of the ... "I never did like the book patterns some people had," says Annie Mae Young, one o... read more

Books So Bad They're Good: The Making of a Modern Myth

This may not sound like much; lots of young girls receive ... and the women of Gee's Bend are shunted aside in favor of a nice little story that almost certainly began as a way to get a tourist to buy ... read more

Charlie Ackerman’s Moment was atop an Asian mountain near a mysterious isolated village

In recorded history, only 100 people had been to the mysterious mountains ... “I said, ‘absolutely’ – I didn’t realize it would take three or four hours to respond,” Charlie said. The simple, agrarian ... read more

The Left-Wing Origins of Newt Gingrich’s Attack on the Courts

Spurred by recent court decisions striking down various labor laws, Roosevelt called for reforms that would ensure that the American people had the final say over important constitutional questions. I... read more

Stories for May 2015

8 a.m., KATV, Channel 7, Little Rock. posted: 05/31/2015 3:21 a.m. At 78, Bob Schieffer is entitled to reminisce about the “good old days” of reporting. He believes young people coming into the busine... read more

Coalition will complete NBN objective, says Turnbull

news Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has given what he described as a “solemn undertaking” to the Australian people that a Coalition Government would “complete the job of NBN Co”, inst... read more

Is Everybody Working for the Weekend?

I would really love to hear people's thoughts on this topic - and not just in response to my specific questions. Anything related is cool. So please, take the poll & jump right in. P.S. And if you don ... read more

Interview with HIV “rethinker” Rebecca Culshaw

Regular readers may recall me previously discussing Rebecca Culshaw (for reference, threads can be found here and here). She’s a PhD mathematician who wrote two articles discussing her departure from ... read more

‘Soft Coup’ on Trump, Hiding in Plain Sight

Trump, who surely knows the shadier corners of the construction trade, might have heard something like, “Gee, we’d hate for your wife and ... But the American people are not supposed to see it that wa... read more

Volume 29 (2009)

A typical fourth grader can rattle off the names of the planets, but does not know the names of the geological chapters of earth history, how old the earth is, when dinosaurs lived, or much else about ... read more