MOOCs totally provide an educational experience equal to or better than traditional college classrooms: In January, San Jose State University made a big announcement: It had reached a deal with the startup Udacity to offer college classes for credit online, for a modest fee, not...
Author: Erik Loomis
As you may have heard, 8 Senators have come to an agreement on student loan rates that is blessed by the White House. On July 1, thanks to our dysfunctional.
Huh. Nate Silver, the statistician who attained national fame for his accurate projections about the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, is parting ways with The New York Times and moving.
No politician wants to talk about this and most Americans don't want to admit it, but the middle class is rapidly disappearing in this country, with contingent, part-time, and freelancing employment replacing the stable jobs with solid incomes that made up the middle class in...
Adam Gopnik with an excellent essay on how Stand Your Ground is basically the American doctrine of maximum violence in a new era: In France and England, though, duelling was.
I guess Lanny Davis' dream of bipartisanship taking place over completely meaningless cultural items has come true in Pennsylvania: Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) released.
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the assault on Fort Wagner, when the African-American 54th Massachusetts so bravely tried to take the fort guarding Charleston Harbor.
In all the hubbub about the ridiculous salary CUNY wanted to pay David Petraeus to teach, we never thought to ask what kind of teacher he would be. The answer--he's.
In our part-time and contingent reality, where workers can't get 40-hour a week jobs even at the minimum wage, what they really need is their bosses giving them advice on.
If anyone needs to puke, reading Lanny Davis appropriating the Washington Nationals to push his dream of a purple America where everyone in the Beltway can just get along by the Democratic Party moving to the right should accomplish it. ....A reminder of the all-time...
So the ESPYs are super dumb and self-serving. Unless Norm Macdonald is the host. If you've never watched his monologue from when he hosted in 1998, you really should do.
I certainly have my critique of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States as a good history book, but it's power and importance can't be denied. And that's.