This piece on Hong Kong's out of control light pollution is a good reminder of one of the least controlled means of pollution. While maybe it isn't as damaging as water or air pollution, humans have made evolutionary adjustments for night and constant light could...
Author: Erik Loomis
Michigan Republicans are very special. After passing right to work legislation in at best a marginally legal manner, they are seeking to punish universities who are negotiating new contracts with.
Luis Feliz and the immigration advocates trying to eliminate the word "illegal" from our discourse on immigration are absolutely right--the word demonizes human beings and is deeply hurtful and damaging..
I certainly believe that Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is a deeply flawed book. It's way too simplistic and polemical. Zinn was not much of a scholar and wrote his book for the explicit point of countering dominant narratives of American...
This is a good expose of the real story behind Abigail Fisher, the lead plaintiff in the case attempting to destroy the remnants of affirmative action in higher education admissions..
I thought it useful to reprint part of Senator Gaylord Nelson's speech from the first Earth Day, in 1970: I congratulate you, who by your presence here today demonstrate your.
Worth remembering in this week of March Madness that the labor, i.e,, the players, receive not one dime of the millions in revenue that the NCAA and schools pull in.
Today in lunatic food faddism: Why eat at all? Just subscribe to my tasteless liquid diet and all your nightmares of tasting food will come to an end. Via Russell.
That's right, the National Rifle Association. And it isn't even close.
With MOOCs, the future is clearly what happened to the French Department at Southeastern Louisiana University. Fire all the tenure track professors, replace them with adjuncts, and continue offering the minor (or major as the case may be). Dare the professors to do something about...
Poor Republicans are all sad that sequestration actually affects their districts. In the same phenomenon Scott describes below with Rob Portman now caring about gay marriage because it affects his.
The end of an era in Boston, as school busing is officially ended. It's true that busing didn't really work very well. It was a clunky approach to a horrible.