My former students write essays: My very first class in graduate school was Dip 600: National Security Policy with Dr. Robert Farley. It was the core course in my focus area and I couldn't have been more nervous. I’d just met my 42 colleagues at orientation...
The man who proved that you can too be too dumb to win the Republican presidential nomination is making noises about running again. He, first of all, wishes to note.
The research assignment is here, and really needs to be read in its entirety. It includes three historical summaries, two of which are conventional if necessarily superficial descriptions of the.
For the 1985 miniseries North and South, the producers hired the greatest actor of his generation to play John Brown. His name? Mr. John R. Cash. Via
To follow up to Erik's post, Amanda Hess has a comprehensive roundup of the labor grievances of NFL cheerleaders. In addition to the low pay and huge amounts of unpaid.
On July 29, 2013, a Florida propane plant owned by Blue Rhino, who makes those big propane tanks you can buy at Wal-Mart, exploded. 5 workers were severely burned. OSHA.
After one ABA task force recommended that another ABA task force be convened to study the financing of legal education, the latter entity has emerged from the primordial bureaucratic ooze. As an evolutionary matter, its composition is rather problematic. A correspondent writes: This has to be...
As we discussed, yesterday was the 79th birthday of the Works Progress Administration, a huge government program to employ the nation's unemployed while building a modern infrastructure. How did the.
It's not Foreign Entanglements, but this is a pretty interesting discussion between Mike Konczal and Art Goldhammer on translating Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century:
I guess I always assumed that NFL cheerleaders were reasonably well-compensated for the rather significant role they play for most teams. Of course I was wrong. The Jets are Gang “Not a Lot of” Green when it comes to paying their cheerleaders, a new lawsuit charges....
Let it be known that "Does it ever occur to you guys that your commenters are objectively despicable people?" has now entered the LGM Hall of Fame, and has been.
I have to admit that the wingnut obsession with Benghazi fascinates me and obviously I'm not the only one. I still don't understand where the Benghazi non-scandal is supposed to.