~ by Anderson Tuggle In reading recent studies about the smaller salaries and employment numbers of students with humanities/area studies majors and, in turn, colleges cutting back these very programs (or, as Stanley Fish calls it, “The...
In the “What Else Is New” category of blog posts, Freddie takes Conor Friedersdorf to the woodshed for blaming the US Post Office’s problems primarily on high labor costs and suggesting that this proves...
My posts on the Israel-Palestine question two weeks ago led to requests for a primer on the Palestinian Authority’s plan to request U.N. recognition in September. This article (from Haaretz) provides just that, for those interested....
As you know, politics is the mind-killer. A fully rational politics would rank the weight of all conceivable policy choices, considering their basic fairness, the costs and benefits they are expected to produce, and...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Seems like a plausible explanation.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25They don't have a coherent plan. Full Stop. There are people focused on the tax cut. There are peopl… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The entire plan, such as it seems to be a coherent plan at all, is to let Trump do whatever he feels… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Heheheh 20 million dollars to lose by 9 points, couldn't happen to a nicer plutocrat.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I'm not sure that she has a whole lot in common with the other speakers that have been shut down ove…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Isn't that what a blacklist is? Now that the word is out on Dr. Liu, it'd take a pretty brave outfit… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I'm not sure that it's a blacklist as such. It's just another name on the pile.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25This is on top of the fact the entire article is trying to paint 'Hamas revised the numbers down' as…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's not "my" article, but it does lay out what actually happened and what the given reasons were. I…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I think it'll eventually revert to a master and apprentice kind of model where the senior person get…
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