Month: April 2016

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Headscarves and Labor Rights

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On April 5, 2016
An interesting labor issue as Air France prepares to resume flights to Tehran. Will Air France female flight attendants and pilots be forced to wear headscarves as part of their uniform on the flight itself? They are saying no, Air France is saying yes: Flore Arrighi, head of the UNAC flight crews’ union, said: “It […]

Philby

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On April 4, 2016
Fascinating video of Kim Philby explaining the tricks of the trade to the Stasi: I’m curious how seriously the Stasi agents took Philby. A legend, to be sure (although I wonder how widely his story spread within Eastern Bloc intel services), but also an old guy who had probably told the same story a hundred […]
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Slave Graves

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On April 4, 2016
This is an outstanding project to categorize the grave sites of slaves, in part in hopes of saving them before they are destroyed. This is what propelled me to create the National Burial Database of Enslaved Americans. When the database is completed, it will be the first national repository of information on the grave sites […]

The Testing Scam

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On April 4, 2016

Diane Ravitch absolutely eviscerates the bipartisan education reforms of the last 15 years under Bush and Obama in a review of two new books for The New York Review of Books. The first shows the disas

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One of the two fundamental problems with American welfare policy is that at its core, it assumes that the poor are morally deficient and need to be fixed instead of just poor. So rather than just increase the money in these programs, politicians blather on about the morality of the poor, which is an excuse […]
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