Erik Loomis
Erik Loomis is the Editorial Board's obituarist. An associate professor of history at the University of Rhode Island, he's the author most recently of A History of America in Ten Strikes (New Press). He blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money. Find him @ErikLoomis.
Most believed he’d be, at best, a transitional figure.
In short, Starr’s feelings about sexual crime depended entirely on whether he liked the person who committed it.
The former Soviet premier became a sort of hero in the west. But he became that hero precisely because he was a massive failure.
Each Mexican president since World War II deserves some level of blame. Few deserve more than Luis Echeverría Alvarez.
For all his work in making the nation worse, Donald Trump presented Hatch with the Presidential Medal of Freedom that year.
Bob Dole 1923-2021.
Colin Powell, 1937-2021.
Richard Trumka (1949-2021)
Erik Loomis writes Donald Rumsfeld’s obituary.