A variety of people have contributed thoughts on progressive security policy. Without getting too much into the weeds on each one, they all provide a certain amount of grist, from Yglesias' proposal for a new service to Finel's consideration of terms to Anderson's detailed look at...
Don Kirshner, the man responsible for the music behind the Monkees, has died. The Monkees represented everything that was most crass and reprehensible about the pop music scene of the.
Very interesting post from Daniel Little, channeling some data from Pew: Fox devoted about half the percentage of its newshole to the BP Oil Spill compared to NBC news; Haiti.
JW Mason makes the point that rising Chinese wages are bad for Western capital heavily invested in China. I would extend this a bit by noting that the heavy Western investment in China should generate some interesting politics in the United States. However much neoconservatives and...
The discussion of John Kasich's lily-white cabinet has brought out two different perspectives about how to think about political appointments. The conservative position that this doesn't matter is based on.
Over the weekend I received an e-mail from the grandson of Lieutenant Cyrus Hall, whose WWI prisoner-of-war interrogation I shared here. Lieutenant Hall, a Canadian serving in the RAF, was.
Very good analysis on the decision of the Wake County school baords decision to abandon a volutary intergration problem, and the ongoing problem of schools being both segregated and unequal that it reflects.
Looking forward to baseball, and remembering Dave Niehaus.
I'm transitioning from teaching film to comics in my unfortunately named "Slow Horror" course tomorrow and so I'm preparing to introduce my students to comic conventions using Robert Kirkman's The.
Yglesias notes that, for the first time in nearly a half century, an Ohio governor appointed an all-white cabinet. It should be unnecessary to point out that, in 2011, a governor of a state with around 1.3 million African American residents who appoints a cabinet that...
Mike Konczal has a nice catch from this Arnold Kling post: However, the %&*#^ lawyers for the borrower come in and claim standing to challenge the foreclosure on the grounds.
Shorter House Republicans: "It's outrageous that insurance companies would be expected to provide you with medical care in exchange for your money. People value the freedom to have their money.