Let's try an oh-so-rare 2013 Predictions Progress Report: World Series Champion: Cincinnati Reds Number of new Venezuelan Presidents: 1 Academy Award, Best Picture: Lincoln Afghanistan Coalition fatalities: 315 (+/- 15) North Korean nuclear tests: 1 Sunsets on the Syria under President of Bashar al-Assad: 75 (+/-...
There's a quasi-defense of CUNY giving enough money to David Petraeus to pay 500 adjuncts, represented here, that I've seen multiple times: Petraeus’ salary will be paid via private fund-raising,.
Teach for America gets played at this great progressive thing. You, young bright-eyed college graduate, can go and change the world through your willpower and optimism. It taps into deeply.
It's been an eventful week in the law school world. Two law schools have announced the immediate or imminent downsizing of their faculties, while another has laid off a dozen staff people, and is claiming that an unspecified number of faculty positions that have opened up...
I'm very excited about having an 8:30 res at Dorsia this evening; and agonizing about what to order has somehow reminded me that several songs are now permanently intertwined in.
Give this to Tom Osborne -- he was ecumenical: The penultimate chapter in the book, "A Difficult Road to Walk," is an in-depth exploration of Osborne's Christianity — he notes.
North Carolina's zoom to the top of the nation's craziest state governments continues unabated, as the state Senate tacked on extreme anti-abortion restrictions to its very important law banning Sharia law in the Tar Heel State. With Texas and Ohio leading the way on the latest...
As a follow up to my initial response to the question of whether the progressive agenda is exhausted, I have a longer piece up about the major issues progressives are.
Updating the story from last week on bumblebees dying by the thousands from insecticide exposure in Oregon, the state has issued a 6 month moratorium on using neonicotinoid-based insecticides. The.
I think Serwer is entirely right about the alleged tactical genius of Chief Justice Roberts. I would estimate that roughly 99.9% of his victories are the product of having 5 votes on most issues as opposed to any strategic savvy: Meanwhile, Chief Justice Roberts has amassed...
I'm a super-classy lady. How do I know this? I wear a monocle and ascot at all times. That's right, in addition to the bunny ears. I'm blindingly classy. Looking.
Or, actually, not: The nation’s 9-year-olds and 13-year-olds are posting better scores in math and reading tests than their counterparts did 40 years ago, and the achievement gap between white.