The geologically stable state of Oklahoma has experienced over 500 measurable earthquakes in 2014, far and away already a record for the state and it is February. Why? Fracking, duh. Scientists have drawn links between earthquakes and wastewater injection wells used for oil and gas production,...
A history of predictions about the coming emergence of a third party, often from people who are paid to write about American politics despite apparently not knowing much of anything.
The University of Illinois-Chicago faculty have gone on strike in protest of the corporatization of the university that threatens what faculty do--our ability to teach and research, the stability of.
I have a post up at War Council (a project associated with the West Point Defense and Strategic Studies Program) about technology, innovation, and institutional design: Major Cavanaugh’s post brings to the fore one of the most critical issues facing any defense establishment: the relationship between technology...
Somehow, this is more satisfying that a boycott would have been. (And, yes, I know the photo is anachronistic but accurate.)
I'm going to be on Al Jazeera America (DirecTV 358 or possibly 347) at 7:30 EST tonight discussing the law school mess. Another guest will be Andrew Post, who graduated.
Via, well, you know... I’m stealing Roy’s money quote. Here David French describes non-gun-molesters as the “dependent class.” As in, we don’t approach every day as if we’re playing “Tombstone” in a loop in our heads, just waiting to say “I’m your Huckleberry” to some “bad...
Delinquency rates overall have been steadily improving since the crisis. Overall 90+ day delinquency rates are at 5.0 percent, much improved from the peak of 8.7 percent reached during the.
Horse overcome by heat, New York City, 1910.
This is really Erik's beat, but the NLRB is holding a set of hearings this week on the nascent movement among college football players to organize a union. The first witness was former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter (he exhausted his eligibility last semester and plans to...
Damon Linker has yet another of his trademark "other people's fundamental rights must be sacrificed to appease conservatives because something" arguments. For example, "when liberals use the government's coercive powers.
This is very European: No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled Monday when an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked his own plane and forced it to land in Geneva, because it happened.