What a surprise that those supposedly "measuring" school success change their data for political convenience. Former Indiana and current Florida schools chief Tony Bennett built his national star by promising to hold "failing" schools accountable. But when it appeared an Indianapolis charter school run by...
Author: Erik Loomis
The Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 29, 1863, arguing that God would not allow the South to become like Mexico: The convulsion which is to cause a permanent disruption of the.
Despite our national culture of fearing cities and creating myths about rural America being the Heartland and such, living in a city is far safer than living in the countryside..
Last week, Barack Obama had a meeting with Vietnamese president Truong Tan Sang. After the meeting, Obama had some remarks about the relationship between Ho Chi Minh and American history: At the conclusion of the meeting, President Sang shared with me a copy of a...
Read Josh Eidelson's piece on fast food strikes. Fast food workers in seven cities will engage in one-day strikes over the next 4 days, starting with New York today. Among.
I just finished re-reading Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio for the first time in many years. While I've been in Mexico, I've reacquainted myself with the literature of the Gilded Age,.
I've spent July in southern Mexico. The region today is defined by immigration. Traveling to one of the towns my wife studies, way up in the Mixteca, an indigenous and mountainous area about five hours from the state capital of Oaxaca, we were talking to...
Like the role Ommegang has played in fighting fracking in New York, I am glad to see Bell's Brewery take on the tar sands company Enbridge after an oil spill.
The New York Times continues its run of articles on the garment trade in Bangladesh but once again I am frustrated with them. Saturday's article focused on the Bangladeshi garment.
Governments subsidize energy. That is a way of life in the United States that is not going to change, because powerful interests make sure those subsidizes become naturalized and we don't think of them as welfare. That's probably a good thing. It's in the government's...
Let's take massive overfishing and combine it with rapidly worsening climate change. What you end up with is a nightmare of cannibalistic lobsters, not to mention a Maine fishing economy.
J.J. Cale has died. Can't say I'm a huge fan of a style this laid-back, which can become outright sleepy. But Cale could write some excellent songs.