Oxford Township is a basically all-white (97%) semi-rural area 40 miles north of Detroit. I had a roommate in college who went to high school there. I realize that from a statistical standpoint the od
Eternal demands that Democratic politicians appeal to the Only Voters That Really Matter (i.e. white voters) by criticizing a powerless Black person or group are premised on the idea that whatever you
Chalk up Nebraska as another state where Republicans are set on destroying the state’s excellent public research university because it’s not a Republican propaganda factory: When I moved t
The use of Holocaust analogies in this context is both insane and disgusting, but Fox News, the rest of the right wing propaganda network in the USA, and indeed the entire conservative movement in thi
This is a bad day. More here. Apparently someone forgot to remove the rain cover and it was sucked into the intake, preventing the aircraft from accumulating the necessary speed to take off from the f
I’m the guest on today’s edition of NPR’s The Indicator, the podcast associated with Planet Money. I’m talking about the past and future of American labor unions. Check it out!
Josh Marshall has some characteristically interesting thoughts about whether and to what extent people should be paying attention to/worried about Bond villain-caricature Peter Thiel. Marshall ties th
Faculty are going to have to lead the fight for the continued exploration of complicated and controversial issues in our research because feckless administrators will cave to right-wing members of sta