In this well-argued talk, Timothy Bartik makes the macro-economic case for preschool education — and explains why you should be happy to invest in it, even if you don’t…
This story is partly to illustrate the troubling trends nationwide, and perhaps offer perspective on the debate over assistance for the needy as it relates to efforts to cut spending.…
James Glattfelder studies complexity: how an interconnected system — say, a swarm of birds — is more than the sum of its parts. And complexity theory, it turns out,…
The promised follow-up, Five Things to be Hopeful for in 2013 by Paul Brandus. Check it out: On New Year’s Eve, I [Brandus] alerted you to “5 disturbing trends to…
More sickening revelations about the corruption in our largest and most powerful institutions and our complete inability to control their behavior. Someone must come up with a way to police…
Two articles, commenting on the explosive video recently leaked that shows Mitt Romney contemptuously downplaying the importance of 47% of the country based on the sole factor that these people…
While I think the truth sits somewhere in between, as it most always does, there can be some confidence in saying that Republican stewardship of the economy has not been…
To preface, lets state that the American public consistently places itself towards the middle of the political spectrum, rather than at the extreme ends. There are many times when the…
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