The Chronicle discusses a new report: "Labor Intensive or Labor Expensive: Changing Staffing and Compensation Patterns in Higher Education", detailing the rise of professional administrative positions in American higher education. This confirms what anecdotal evidence has been strongly suggesting: administration positions (hence, costs) have increased, dramatically,...
Ralph Kiner, R.I.P. If you watch the Mets, you knew it was baseball season when Ralph came into the booth for a few innings, and of course long-term Mets fans.
Dead horses after Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
More lucky duckies: The Senate failed to move forward on a three-month extension of assistance for the long-term unemployed on Thursday, leaving it unlikely that Congress would approve the measure soon while undercutting a key aspect of President Obama’s economic recovery plan. Fifty-nine senators, including four...
Plumer has a good summary of one of the nation's most underreported energy/environmental problems--coal ash storage. Storing this nasty stuff safely is a real problem. Environmentalists have pushed for new.
For quite awhile, the AFL-CIO has tried to tread a middle ground on fossil fuel development. Understanding that its constituent unions had differing feelings on the issue and finding itself.
The most academically accomplished political science graduate of the University of Washington has passed away. One of the remarkable things about Dahl is that not only did he remain productive far past the age at which most people have retired, in many respects his work kept...
One of the most obvious advantages of guaranteed health insurance is that people are no longer bound to their jobs solely because they need the health insurance, but are free.
Laura Nelson Black History Month isn't just about MLK and the civil rights movement. It's about remembering the horrible things that white people did to black people through American history..
What is Philip Roth doing in retirement? Roth: Currently, I am studying 19th-century American history. The questions that preoccupy me at the moment have to do with Bleeding Kansas, Judge Taney and Dred Scott, the Confederacy, the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, Presidents Johnson and Grant...
The gist of my latest at the Diplomat: In the shadow of Iraq, “muddling through,” “retrenchment,” or “restraint” all look a bit more attractive. Arecent post by Xavier Marquez gives.
So, semi-interesting thing about me: I used to babysit this woman. Who, going by this article, has grown up to be a lovely person, inside and out. Neato! I grew.