The fickle Gods of peer review have directed me to turn my critical eye toward this article. Wellman defends the possibility of highly restrictive immigration policy, up to and including, potentially, rejecting any and all legitimate political refugees, on freedom of association grounds. It's a clever...
My latest at the Diplomat thinks through the reasoning behind future military engagement between China and the United States: Because effective communication requires shared priors, China and the United States.
I scored an interview with the author of the controversial Chronicle article, Marc Bousquet.* I tried to make the stakes of the debate clear to non-academic readers, and I think.
Listen to what Dana Perino has to say about the new film, "Noah." She basically says "This film does not mirror my ill-informed, misty, water-colored childhood memories therefore it's wrong." Can there be a better distillation of wingnutism around? I mean, is wingnutism anything more than...
Yet another depressing article about women in technology. If you value your sanity, don't read the comments section, which is a compilation of petulant hand-waving and mansplaining. [SEK] In.
A valuable reminder: It's proper to revisit that campaign, which established a new standard for odious political advertising. That's a real achievement, given the deceitful nature of most of the.
A very good discussion between Harold Pollock and Jonathan Gruber on the Supreme Court decision that will kill some of society's most vulnerable citizens: Jon: I think, Harold, the single thing we probably need to keep the most focus on is the tragedy of the lack...
The New America foundation has released a study of graduate and professional school debt, which features a bunch of interesting information. Unlike most reports regarding such debt, New America's survey.
Terrific reporting from Dara Lind here.
This is a guest post from Steven Attewell. You may have heard he has a new book out. So this filled me with an instant rage this morning; works better than coffee. Apparently the problem with Captain America in Winter Soldier was that the protagonist in...
Glad to see Maryland following Connecticut in creating a $10.10 minimum wage. That's still too low but it's a nice jump. It also continues to build a real red state-blue.
This is insane. The Pentagon has developed the MOP bomb specifically for destroying hardened targets. It can penetrate as deeply as 200 feet underground before detonating, more than enough capability.