The Times has now done five stories about the surpassingly trivial question of who will be the RA of Winthrop House: This is the fifth NYT piece (3 opinion, 2 news) about who runs a Harvard dorm. Plus three NYT news stories so far on...
Month: June 2019
Content warning: If you experience vicarious embarrassment so intense that comedies of errors make you cringe, you'll still want to see Ivanka Trump try to insert herself into a conversation.
Kate Cronin-Furman on Trump's concentration camps: The debate over whether “concentration camps” is the right term for migrant detention centers on the southern border has drawn long-overdue attention to the.
Some companies are now making interns sign noncompete agreements: As a junior in college, Delaney Dunne took an internship for class credit and $10 an hour at co-working company TekMountain in Wilmington, N.C.On graduation day this year, she received a letter from TekMountain’s parent asking...
On June 30, 1928, Alabama ended the leasing of convicts to mine coal. One of the most controversial practices in southern labor history, this was a significant step toward human.
This was quite the last couple of weeks for music in my world Not only did I get lucky enough to listen to some really great albums for the first.
I have a piece at Vox wrapping up the latest Supreme Court term. It was a tentative term without a lot of blockbuster cases, but with plenty of signals that we're completely screwed. One question that arises from the latest atrocious Roberts Court decision on...
I teach in Iowa but, because of my partner's job, spend much of my time in Madison, Wisconsin. I occasionally write for a kinda new web publication there called The.
Sure, Donald Trump is manifestly unfit for office, an authoritarian by disposition, a serial sexual assaulter, suffering from obvious mental decline, and more trusting of the information he gets from.
Making America Great Again with that old-timey Jim Crow favorite, the poll tax: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law on Friday denying the right to vote to anyone with a past felony conviction who owes money to the state. Critics call it a modern-day...
Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) If you followed me on Twitter in 2016-2017 or read some of my posts in the same period, you may know that one.
This is the grave of Fannie Battle. Before you note the discrepancy between the spelling of her name on the tombstone and in this post, note that every single reference.