Shorter a lot of "progressives" today: "I usually support unions, but these Chicago teachers [insert Republican talking point about unions.]" People are complaining--these teachers are highly paid, how dare they strike! First of all, I love that even self-identified "progressives" buy into the tear other...
Author: Erik Loomis
Tomorrow morning, the Chicago teachers are going on strike. This is a power struggle between the union-busting mayor and Democratic National Convention speaker Rahm Emanuel and the teachers who are.
This op-ed about the growing use of physical restraint and torture in public schools should outrage us all: Among the recent instances that have attracted attention: Children in Middletown, Conn.,.
The always useful site Executed Today details the execution of Thomas Granger, a Puritan executed on this day in 1642 for bestiality in Plymouth Colony. William Bradford's description of the case: Ther was a youth whose name was Thomas Granger; he was servant to an...
And now I know the answer thanks to Roscoe Bartlett, a Republican congressman representing Maryland's 6th District: "Not that it’s not a good idea to give students loans; it certainly.
Also known as my latest Alternet piece. In part: At first, Americans did not protest much against the end of the income tax, but with skyrocketing income inequality of the.
This fall, I am teaching graduate students for the first time. I am teaching our senior capstone course, which graduate students can sign up for. My course in on the history of the American West. Usually 1 or 2 graduate students sign up, but I...
Although I do not have children, when I was integrated into the gigantic family of my in-laws, I was exposed to the American Girl Doll phenomenon. The dolls' little historical.
I am agnostic on the Bully Pulpit debate we frequently have on the blog. I think both Scott and those who disagree with him make good points. So I don't.
I'm not sure that this study is as scientific as its authors claim, but this piece on how baseball commentators use code words to describe players based upon race suggests the stereotypes many of us already knew existed. As we all know, only white players...
Paul Ryan's unwillingness to accept money from the government he routinely attacks shows just what a principled leader he truly is: Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan is barnstorming the country,.
Hopefully, Obama doesn't actually believe his claim that the Republicans will be more willing to compromise if he wins a second term. Because it's almost certainly not true. And the.