1. Montpelier, Ohio decides to arm their school custodians. "Sitting back and doing nothing and hoping it doesn't happen to you is just not good policy anymore. There is a need for schools to beef up their security measures," Supertendent Jamie Grime told the Toledo...
Author: Erik Loomis
A good Saturday night song.
Scientific research on a topic we here at LGM know a whole lot about.
Maybe what Scott is missing that is Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are genuises. They know that the gods are angry at America's deficit spending and are making our climate go crazy as a divine punishment. The only thing that will appease their anger--austerity programs...
I'm glad someone in Israel is still willing to speak the truth about where the policies of the Netanyahu government is taking the country--down the road to apartheid. Also, Oz's.
Admittedly, January is an odd time for an article on air conditioning for a publication whose readership is mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. Makes sense though for those in Australia.
Alyssa Battistoni has an interesting and lengthy piece at Jacobin about natural disasters, what will cause us to do something about them, what lessons do we leawrn, and a lot of other things. I think it's been out for a little while, but I just...
A bunch of conservative Texas groups are taking history departments at the University of Texas and Texas A&M to task because they supposedly talk too much about race, class, and.
Related to my dismissal of Obama's words about Hilda Solis yesterday (and here's Dave Jamieson with a good run-down of Solis' term as Secretary of Labor, Josh Eidelson has a.
Since it seems Hugo Chavez is about to die, it's worth looking at his legacy a bit. Of course, it's almost impossible to do so in a measured way. His die-hard supporters (relatively few as they may be in the United States) talk of him...
Why, Obama, why? The Presidential Inauguration Committee announced Tuesday that the President Obama has selected Pastor Louie Giglio of the Georgia-based Passion City Church to deliver the benediction for his.
A few labor items of note. 1. Hilda Solis is resigning as Secretary of Labor. Hard to blame her given the isolation of the Department of Labor during the Obama.