Dylan Matthews lays out the rift between Chicago’s teachers and the city’s management in some numerical detail. Bottom line, teachers are being asked to do more with less. Less pay, more accountability, but still no real...
Update 2 (see below)–Due to Conor’s recent posts on Progressivism and Conservative rhetoric, as well as comments arguing in favor of the existence of (or possibility of) Conservative Progressives, as well as a call for some guesses as...
[ORIGINAL] — So it is being reported, by various outlets, that a “group of hackers” has obtained, through something resembling Mission Impossible/Sneakers like antics, several of Mitt Romney’s prior tax returns.
I think Tom Junod’s characterization of the First Lady’s speech is exactly right. “Republican commentators,” he writes, “spoke almost winsomely of Ann Romney’s need to humanize Mitt Romney; but no Democratic commentator could speak of the...
Make sure it’s this. Whether you believe it or not, are persuaded or remain unconvinced, Matt Taibbi’s piece, combined with Romney’s close to the Republican Convention, will make it the talk of the town.
Last time I asked for documentary recommendations and got a lot of great feedback, so I thought I’d try crowdsourcing again.
I agree with Paul Krugman when he writes, “We know what Ferguson is going to do…But what is Newsweek going to do?” While the immediate controversy surrounded a less than esteemed Ivy League Professor...
Given Ta-Nehisi Coates’ powerful story from the most recent issue of the Atlantic which looks at the President’s narrative through the lens of race, in addition to Romney’s recent birther joke and his (completely false) welfare ad...
I won’t waste time giving you the context. Niall Ferguson wrote the cover story for Newsweek’s August 19th issue. It is an affront to sound reasoning, intellectual curiosity, and charitable discourse. Here’s why.
I am looking forward to watching how this develops over the week. There are, to me, at least three interesting things going on here.
I loathe Ryan, not least of all because I can now no longer sit in front of the telly (my Netflix queue has been full of British sitcoms) and let my frustration reservedly smolder as I watch the...
I haven’t watched one in a while, and though I lean towards the political type, or those documentaries which depict the worst kinds of social injustice, I’m willing to take a spin outside my wheel...
Actually, Antonin Scalia is right. I do not write those words often, or lightly. And it is actually Kevin Drum who comes off as glib and dismissive in this recent post on the Supreme...
(Spoilers: This post will be rife with them. Do not read unless you’ve already seen the movie or couldn’t care less about the story. And, borrowed from Jaybird because he already covered all the...
Why do I like Nolan’s Batman movies? Why have I anticipated each one so much, taking part in their taxing spectacle with the unflinching glee of a 5 year old? Why do I lose...
So the Emmy nominations are in with some interesting choices, even if the roster’s overall impression conveys something of a feeling of “to be expected.” It’s been a good year in television after all,...
Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man has the undeserved misfortune of coming second. Rebooted only 10 years after Sam Raimi first brought the web slinger to the big screen, The Amazing Spider-Man suffers from been there/done that fatigue....
Figured there are plenty of tech/software savvy people around the League that could weigh in and give their thoughts on this recent ruling from the European Union’s Court of Justice:
The Atlantic‘s Andrew Cohen pulls out some choice quotes from today’s SCOTUS opinion penned by Chief Justice Roberts: “The individual mandate, however, does not regulate existing commercial activity. It instead compels individuals to become active in...
Taking a cue from Ryan, I’ll post my rant here so as not to disturbm the rest of the symposium. As per usual, nothing gets my heart rate up like a sloppy discussion of the...
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on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyNevertheless, the selection of a poor (to put it extremely mildly) choice is a selection of a poor c…
on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyYou don't get it. Jaybird, and only Jaybird, gets to be a moral scold here. on An Election Map that Asks “What if Only Educated People Voted?” and a Follow-up QuestionExplains a lot. on An Election Map that Asks “What if Only Educated People Voted?” and a Follow-up QuestionI've long said that some folks here don't really have politics at all, only aesthetics.
on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyAgain, to repeat: I understand that people felt economically-insecure. I fully understand that becau…
on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyIt's an office that suffers from an odd combination of prominence and lack of official duties or aut…
on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyIf the only explanations that make sense to you are ones that make you feel morally superior, this w…
on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyThis is DEI in a nutshell and sometimes it's explained at this level of detail. Calling this "a mess… on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyThe Financial Times has a nice little article: Trump broke the Democrats’ thermostat. Data suggests… on The Four Stages of Post-election CrueltyAt the risk of Godwinning myself, explanations of why a voting public would choose something vile ar…
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