A history of predictions about the coming emergence of a third party, often from people who are paid to write about American politics despite apparently not knowing much of anything about the subject. I would suspect that the correlation between these predictions and predictions of brokered...
The University of Illinois-Chicago faculty have gone on strike in protest of the corporatization of the university that threatens what faculty do--our ability to teach and research, the stability of.
I have a post up at War Council (a project associated with the West Point Defense and Strategic Studies Program) about technology, innovation, and institutional design: Major Cavanaugh’s post brings to.
Somehow, this is more satisfying that a boycott would have been. (And, yes, I know the photo is anachronistic but accurate.)
I'm going to be on Al Jazeera America (DirecTV 358 or possibly 347) at 7:30 EST tonight discussing the law school mess. Another guest will be Andrew Post, who graduated.
Via, well, you know... I’m stealing Roy’s money quote. Here David French describes non-gun-molesters as the “dependent class.” As in, we don’t approach every day as if we’re playing “Tombstone”.
Delinquency rates overall have been steadily improving since the crisis. Overall 90+ day delinquency rates are at 5.0 percent, much improved from the peak of 8.7 percent reached during the first quarter of 2010, with declines in the individual 90+ day delinquency rates for mortgages and...
Horse overcome by heat, New York City, 1910.
This is really Erik's beat, but the NLRB is holding a set of hearings this week on the nascent movement among college football players to organize a union. The first.
Damon Linker has yet another of his trademark "other people's fundamental rights must be sacrificed to appease conservatives because something" arguments. For example, "when liberals use the government's coercive powers to force believers to change their views or act against their most deeply held spiritual convictions,...
This is very European: No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled Monday when an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked his own plane and forced it to land in Geneva, because it happened.
I bring this to your attention because it’s fun to do a little thought experiment with a “What Your Favorite Kind of Cookie Says about You” kind of story. And.