Beer, California “California has a historic role in the development of homebrewing in America” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 December 2015 The vast majority of brewers in California, and the nation for that matter, began...
Beer, California “…the trend of beer becoming bigger, blander, and nationwide would not continue unabated” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 December 2015 Nationwide, the downward trend in number of operated breweries reached the lowest point in...
America “The 1803 Louisiana Purchase…set off the dynamic that led to the Civil War” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 December 2015 The 1803 Louisiana Purchase—by which the U.S. acquired more slaveholding territory in the name...
Politics in America “The three celebrity outsiders continued to wrap the thinnest evidence of their ability to do the job in the gaudiest self-assurance” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 December 2015 The three celebrity outsiders continued to wrap the thinnest evidence of their ability to...
Politics in America “…it’s unsettling to encounter a prospective leader whose persona is so conspicuous and well defined and yet whose core is so obtuse” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 November 2015 Trump might be the single most self-involved yet least introspective person I have ever...
America, Politics in America “…American liberalism had a lot of the South in it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 November 2015 After slavery had ended and Reconstruction gave way to the Jim Crow system, the...
America, Beer “…the development of beer styles in America came to a uniform apex in the decades following Prohibition’s repeal. American beer was, in all practical senses, lager-styled” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 November 2015 Much like the developments in technology for storage and transportation, the development of beer...
Politics in America “The Trump campaign may be a win-win for Trump, but it is a monstrous dilemma for a lot of other people” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 November 2015 The Trump campaign may be a win-win for Trump, but it is a monstrous...
Politics in America “…the core of Trump’s phenomenon is his celebrity itself, which, in today’s America, is in fact as populist as it gets” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 November 2015 …while populism is often associated with grass-roots movements, Trump’s brand of it flows not...
America, Races in America “Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the country, you might still, if you look hard enough, detect tendrils of Southern influence that extend past the Mason-Dixon Line” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 November 2015 Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the...