I know that this is kind of Unionism 101, but since we as a nation are now in a remedial state when it comes to understanding why we need labor unions, Eric Liu's piece on non-unionized workers should be concerned about organized labor's decline is...
Month: January 2013
I thought this Laura Seay piece lambasting English language coverage of Mali pretty outstanding. I know nothing about Mali and thus haven't commented on it except to express sadness at.
Charles puts the NCAA's famously due process-free investigations in useful context: Unfortunately, too many institutions unleash the Inner Authoritarian in too many people these days. There are companies that test.
My latest at the Diplomat isn't so much about Mali as it is about heavy airlift, logistics, and multilateralism: With increasingly dense littoral populations living in a disaster-prone region, the ability of ASEAN militaries to conduct airlift may become their critical operational capability. Of all...
So states the (Republican) Speaker of the Florida State House, coming out in opposition to the RNC's strategy of assigning Electoral College votes by Congressional district in Blue / Red.
Apparently dead for now. The key phrase being "for now"; the electoral college remains awful.
In Seattle, good for the state's voters: Jim Nabors, best known as Gomer Pyle from “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” has just wed his partner of 38 years, Stan Cadwallader, in Seattle, according to Hawaii News Now. The couple traveled from their...
Except to the extent that she could. But, of course, there's also the hygiene! Because we should not only completely ignore the existence of the world's successful gender-integrated armies, including.
Today, I turned 39. In my ripe old age, I'd like to share some advice from the WPA. From 1941: The more you know.
George Packer's comments on the terribleness of Southern politics has inspired a number of responses, most notably from Gary Wills. These discussions frustrate me though for a number of reasons. First, the South is equated with reactionary white people in both articles. The reality is...
Some links for your Tuesday: I think that Coach Cal comes off fabulously well here. The article is particularly good on the time horizons problem; coaches/owners/administrators will always have a.
A couple commenters beat me to it, but the self-paradoically specious argument in defense of marriage discrimination djw makes fun of below was, less than ten years ago, good enough.