Syzygy
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 21st, 2008 at 10:38 amNot only is it an awesome word that I never get to use, but it also describes the current state of the healthcare debate. Watch…
Posts Tagged ‘inequality’
I Don’t Really Care if Auto CEOs Fly in Private Jets
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pmThere’s been a lot of controversy over the Big 3 automobile companies’ CEOs flying to Washington on private jets and then asking for huge sums…
Priorities
By Jesse Singal - Nov 19th, 2008 at 5:12 pmVia reddit, Threat Level reports:
Combating music piracy at Tennessee’s public university system is more important than hiring teachers and keeping down tuition costs.
Just-signed…
Urban Education
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pmThe more I read about it, the more I realize how massive a responsibility an Office of Urban Planning would have. The office, supposedly, would…
The College (Soon-to-be) Dropouts
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pmVia Jason Zengerle, Drake Bennett at The Boston Globe has a long, soul-crushingly dark account of what a 21st century depression would (will?) look like.…
Single Mothers Drop in College Attendance
By Kay Steiger - Nov 14th, 2008 at 2:48 pmWell, here’s yet another complication to Bill Clinton’s welfare reform. Changes in welfare policy during the 1990s put the incentive on welfare recipients to work,…
What’s Edwards’ Angle?
By Jessica Hillyard - Nov 13th, 2008 at 10:44 amThe infamous John Edwards has emerged, albeit quietly, from the Batcave. After making a public mockery of himself by admitting in August to having an…
Urban Policy Focus
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 12th, 2008 at 2:51 pmThe consensus I’m getting from people I trust is that President-elect Obama’s Office of Urban Policy should apply the priorities of other departments like those…
Bad Education
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 2:22 pmThis Harvard Crimson story encapsulates everything that’s wrong with Teach for America:
Four days ago, a select group of eighth graders from G. Gardner Shugart…
Mitchell Rofsky’s Apartment Smells of Upper Middle-Class Mahogany
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 27th, 2008 at 1:14 pmIt’s kind of disappointing when the former head of a self-described “socially responsible mutual fund” reveals that he’s painfully out of touch with real Americans’…
Tawana and Todd
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 24th, 2008 at 3:26 pmAs soon as the Ashley Todd “Obama attack” story broke, I wondered who would be the first to compare it to the Tawana Brawley case.…
Love and Basketball
By Jesse Singal - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 5:31 pmI’m probably losing a bit of credibility by throwing out my second “must-read” recommendation of the day, but this lengthy E:60 feature article is wrenching…
Crunching Private Student Loans
By Kay Steiger - Oct 22nd, 2008 at 5:33 pmA new study, Inside Higher Ed reports, shows that while “few [students] were deterred in any real way from pursuing their education” this fall, “the…
Is the Death Penalty On the Outs?
By Kay Steiger - Oct 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pmOver at Campus Progress today we have an article from Michael Corritore, an editor of the Brown Contemporary (one of our Campus Publications Networks publications),…
In Defense of Chicago’s “Gay School”
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 20th, 2008 at 11:18 amThe Los Angeles Times opposes Chicago’s proposed LGBT charter school. The arguments are familiar, that “the creation of a cloistered, segregated environment represents an easy…
