Category: A Healthy Commotion
Shots fired from the left.
Paul Krugman’s Inadequate Apologetics
Obama’s record and legacy are beside the point. It’s time for liberals to move beyond the President and his conservative opposition.
Vox Fails at Explaining the Drone Arsenal Race
A Vox story on America’s drone arsenal has some more explaining to do.
Education is Important, but not in the Fight Against Inequality
David Leonhardt is confused about inequality, at least according to his shallow dive into Thomas Picketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Unpaid Internships Are About Exploitation, Not Helping The Jobless
I agree with Matthew Yglesias that “America needs more on-the-job learning, not less,” I just don’t know what that has to do with giving “Two Cheers for Unpaid Internships.”
The Problem with a ‘Defense” of Working on Holidays
Attempting some clarifications on what’s at stake as norms about working on national holidays shift.
Working on Holidays is Rarely a Choice
Defending the right of employees to choose to work holidays like Thanksgiving threatens to ignore the fact that, for many, choice never factors into it.
Coca-Cola: Saving the World From its Own Practices
Coca Cola is partnering to deliver clean drinking water to small villages around the world, even as it steals water from others.
We’re Still Doomed, Continued
A government shutdown is looking less likely. Here’s why that should scare you.
Bloomberg on the GOP’s Obamacare Alternative: Thank You but Try Again
The GOP still can’t come up with a conservative answer to Obamacare.
We’re Still Doomed
The latest developments in the latest shutdown crisis do not portend well for those who are into the whole operational government thing.
I’m now convinced that bombing Syria is the wrong thing to do
James Fallows relays William R. Polk’s assessment of the Syria situation.
“The faint echoes of Sister Souljah rattling around American racial politics”
In an otherwise fine speech, the President continues a pandering tic that’s well past its sell-by date.
The Problem with the Public vs. Private Distinction in Education
Allison Benedikt accuses her colleagues who send their kids to private school for turning their backs on the promise of public education.
Inequality and MLK
An insightful Bloomberg op-ed highlights the special relationship between Martin Luther King and organized labor.
