The Center for Investigative Reporting has an outstanding animation up about fish politics and who controls the fisheries. Essentially, the catch shares system for regulating fisheries has turned into creating state-sponsored monopolies over the fishing grounds. It doesn't have to be that way. A few catch...
Erick Erickson for this lovely tweet: That lefties are accusing the new pope of handing over lefties to the right wing junta for execution makes me adore the new pope..
Among the many problems with decentralized charter school systems is that students end up being taught anything that the crazy people who often run them want. Such is the case.
Some links for your reading pleasure: Watching the inter-agency debate over responsibility for Afghanistan play out should be very interesting. Income inequality and democratic militarism. 155th article on which part of the nuclear triad we should kill. I'm forced to note that as long as you...
Since it won this month's Sidney, I was reminded that I have neglected to link to Steven Brill's brilliant article about the amount of gouging involved in health care markets..
The education capitalists have a great plan. We starve the universities by reducing their state funding so much that students can't easily graduate in 4 years. Then we get our.
Pretty much nothing good. But as any good brogressive will tell you, there's no real difference between a massive expansion of Medicaid and a plan to destroy Medicaid; it would be perfectly rational for a progressive to prefer that elections result in the latter outcome, because...
US News has published the debt figures for the law school graduating classes of 2012. A few notes: (1) These figures are mislabeled "average indebtedness of 2012 graduates who incurred.
I don't know, why don't you just ask me? Because apparently I fool [students] into acquiring a decent approximation of expertise by providing them with source material that they believe.
Klein: Here is Paul Ryan’s path to a balanced budget in three sentences: He cuts deep into spending on health care for the poor and some combination of education, infrastructure, research, public-safety, and low-income programs. The Affordable Care Act’s Medicare cuts remain, but the military is...
Why actually pay conservative hacks to write propaganda for your anti-democratic government. All you have to do is ask and they are evidently happy to do so for free. As.
And so begins the fourth generation: George P. Bush, the eldest son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush and nephew of former president George W. Bush, is running for Texas.