Opposition to same sex marriage and RFRAs explicitly animated by and defended in terms of anti-gay animus: two independently bad arguments that go even worse together.
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Erik's post about media discourse regarding higher ed is related to an aspect of Steve Solomon's "is this a good time to go to law school" piece that itself reflects.
The other day, Stanford got a ton of publicity for offering free tuition for all students whose families make less than $125,000 a year. My response. Fine, but it's not.
The usual discussion among people interested in cities is that rent control doesn't work. I don't know the literature enough to have a strong opinion on the matter. But I thought Jake Blumgart's piece an interesting defense of the practice: But a comprehensive review of...
I love this campaign by the Canadian Fair Trade Network that plays on country of origin labels to describe the working conditions in those nations. "100% cotton. Made in Cambodia.
On Wednesday Steven Solomon, a law professor, published a column in the NYT on why, despite the claims of certain hysterical alarmists, things really are actually pretty good these days.
A cool new visualization of the Atlantic slave trade. Could be interesting/useful to many of you. I'll probably use it for my U.S. history survey course in the fall.
I'm not a fan of knee-jerk hipster-bashing; hipsters are fine, I guess. They do some cool stuff, they do some dumb stuff. Sometimes they put flowers in their facial hair..
A framework for an Iran deal was announced. To save time, the conservative reaction will be that Iran is the Hitler-of-the-week and Obama is Chamberlain.
I don't condone the behavior of the Atlanta teachers and administrators who cheated on high-stakes tests, although I also think that the cheating was foreseeable given the incentives (and this can't be an isolated case.) But this is a classic case of vastly disproportionate punishment:...
Some musings inspired by the Indiana backlash and the backlash to the backlash: Some “meta” preliminaries: obviously, freedom of religion at its core is a non-negotiable requirement for any society.
So my soon-to-be-former Raw Story cohort Arturo Garcia and I decided we had things to say about the sixth season of Community, and what better place to say them then in a podcast?*.