Above: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) If the Republican war on science is going to have its lead inquisitor, it will be Lamar Smith. And indeed, the House Science Committee is.
Lauren Gurley has a really good post on why the left doesn't talk about rural poverty. Lisa Pruitt, a law professor at the University of California at Davis, studies the.
Over the last several years, battles over history textbooks have occasionally come up in the American media, with conservatives freaking out the new AP U.S. History standards that don't explicitly.
Scott Walker and his hacks have destroyed tenure at the University of Wisconsin. This been known for several months as the bill went through the state legislature and Walker's desk..
As a historian, everything about the internet concerns me. There are two reasons for this. First, the rush to get rid of books (my friend's school is shredding them if.
This Human Rights Watch report on climate change in northwestern Kenya is well worth your time. It is quite excellent because it shows how climate change combines with politics, tradition,.
There's a useful slight reversal of position from President Obama and other Democratic politicians who have pushed a regimen of educational reforms, primarily constant standardized testing (or studying for those.
This is just a small story about a small city, but I thought it was a pretty good look at perhaps the key issue in modern urbanism, especially in the.
