The trends are not good.
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Marriage equality in Ireland is on the ballot in Ireland in May, and the forces of discrimination and bigotry appear to have their work cut out for them. Opponents of.
January 5th, and we already have an overwhelming frontrunner: Sometime in 2011, before the gestation of my second son, my employer, Boston University, implemented paternity leave for its male professors..
I was welcomed to Cartagena by a picture of Sherrod Brown and his cute dog reading the advance copy of my book. He is writing a blurb, as is Bill McKibben, Aviva Chomsky, James Loewen, Kalpona Akter and even more awesome activists and scholars. You...
In Harvard’s health care enrollment guide for 2015, the university said it “must respond to the national trend of rising health care costs, including some driven by health care reform,”.
I know 2015 is only five days old, but I really think this one's going to be a contender. And lest you think that that headline wrote itself, consider The Daily.
On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford announced his famous $5 a day wage to his workers. Ford is often lauded for his efforts here and he was surely forward-thinking in creating this salary. But this post will also challenge his reputation as a good employer,...
Obviously, Lions fans will be upset about the bizarre decision to pick up the flag on the PI call -- and rightly so -- but more criticism should be reserved.
Shorter one-term Seattle Mayor Ed Murray: "Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more tunnels!" (To be clear, in isolation the West Seattle/Ballard transit tunnel could.
LGM's least popular blogger is off to Colombia for a couple of weeks. I have a couple of posts scheduled, but blogging will be sporadic and dependent upon unknown internet connections. Hopefully I can watch Oregon in the title game since ESPN does not stream...
Victoria Vanoch's history of flight attendants and beauty is a highly readable and enjoyable history of one of the most unique sets of workers in the twentieth century United States..
Shorter Greg Mankiw: "Thomas Piketty is crazy to think that large inequalities in wealth undermine democracy. Why, the founding fathers were all rich, and American citizenship was always granted on.