This spring, I am teaching a graduate seminar on the Environmental History of the Americas. Since I know how much extra time everyone has, I thought I'd post the readings so that people can read along if they wish. I hope it is enough reading...
Month: January 2014
Not satisfied with the "Republican plan" that was enacted into law with no ex ante, contemporaneous, or ex post facto support from any national Republican, some congressional Republicans are pretending.
Obama will announce a minimum wage of $10.10 for all federal contractors. Obviously, it would be better if he would use the bully pulpit to force the Republican House to.
Wow. For the first time in the history of college sports, athletes are asking to be represented by a labor union, taking formal steps on Tuesday to begin the process of being recognized as employees, ESPN's "Outside The Lines" has learned. Ramogi Huma, president of...
You know that the mental health maintenance system of the country is messed up when Creigh Deeds' son can't find a bed at the local hospital: Deeds immediately sought and.
Unfortunately, some people are mistaking the Golden Age Earth-Two origin story of the Air Force for the Silver Age Earth-One story. They shouldn't do that. With respect to the founding.
Well, this is just plain stupid: Is blogging inherently unprofessional? Some people seem to think so, perhaps because they read my stuff, but there are plenty of bloggers far more professional than I. As a member of the International Studies Association's Governing Council, I received the...
Pete Seeger has died. He was 94. I have only a very fragmentary sense of how the revival of American folk music in the 1950s and 1960s played a role.
Getting rejected by the state of California in his application to practice law (PDF), largely because he has never really come clean about his actions with The New Republic, even.
Ron Fournier has discovered that everyone now agrees with him: For months, the White House and its allies mocked critics of Barack Obama's leadership, arguing that no president has "Green Lantern" superhero powers. Now these same people are predicting that Obama can salvage his agenda...
Sometimes one image does indeed tell a whole story.
Howard Kurtz, those with long memories will know, had sweet sinecures with both CNN and the Daily Beast (bureau chief!) for reasons that are not easily explicable but were surely.