Less than three months after Rahm Emanuel closed 50 Chicago public schools to bust the teachers union move resources around efficiently, the august mayor has issued a call for new charter schools in the very neighborhoods where the public schools were shuttered. It just so...
Author: Erik Loomis
The inevitable bad choice of the New Jersey Democratic electorate happened last night with the victory of Empty Suit Booker in the state's Senate primary. Soon to make us long.
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, bringing the modern welfare state to the American people and providing the nation’s poor long-desired old age.
Another country legend is gone. It's amazing how many iconic country songs Glaser was involved with in one way or another. "Streets of Baltimore." "El Paso." "Gentle on My Mind." "Ring of Fire." "Lovin' Her Was Easier."
I endorse all of Robert Kuttner's essay on the need for enforceable standards in the garment industry as the only way disasters like the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh can.
The Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico (and presumably Chihuahua as well, but the Mexican side of the drought is completely ignored by most environmental journalists) is undergoing what ecologists call.
When I was a kid, the Oregon Republican Party was a real and legitimate enterprise. It elected senators that remained in office for a very long time (Mark Hatfield, Bob Packwood, before that Wayne Morse even if he eventually switched parties). It elected governors like...
Just in case you get into any causes of the Civil War discussion during Sunday barbecue with the in-laws or something. Here's E.S. Dargan's speech at the Alabama secession convention:.
Stephen Greenhouse has an outstanding article on worker centers, particularly the Texas-based Workers Defense Project, that provide union-like groups to some of the poorest workers in the United States, especially.
Pierce makes an excellent point about how our 24-hour news cycle eliminates extraordinarily important stories that deserve long-term coverage. This reality is a huge boon to business and the corrupt, who can rest assured that if stories about their malfeasance do come out, they will...
Schools are listed here with no comment provided. The list of most LGBT unfriendly schools is largely a repeat of last year with 16 returning schools and four replacements (in.
Gary Rubinstein does some number crunching from New York school test report that showed declining scores and what he finds exposes more Rheeism lies: In the Stephanie Simon report she.