Harvard
Driving While Dreadlocked: Why Police Are So Bad At Racial Profiling
Poison Ivy: Why Elizabeth Warren's Day Job May Undo Her Senate Campaign
The Indecency of Harvard’s 9/11 Commemoration
Harvard’s “Remembering 9/11” did no such thing. The events on the tenth anniversary of September 11 in Cambridge did little remembering of 9/11 and a whole lot of rehashing of the events in the post-9/11 world. Those people who did talk about 9/11 universalized it ad absurdum. Those people who talked about America’s response to 9/11, at home and abroad, spent little time memorializing the dead and a great deal of time admonishing Americans. READ MORE >>
Why do Mitt Romney’s attempts to be funny fall flat? Most of the Romneyisms that get quoted only seem funny to his critics—“Corporations are people, my friend,” or “Look, I’m not going to eat Barack Obama’s dog food.” But he knows he has to try. As he rather grimly told Time in 2008, “One of the rules we had was we were going to have fun. The first rule was every meeting had to begin with a joke. And it took some work to find jokes.” READ MORE >>
Judging from the fervor of their celebrations, the Libyan people are acutely aware that they will benefit from the fall of Muammar Qaddafi. But Libya is hardly the only country that has reason to rejoice. READ MORE >>
Jobs Program? Here Are 3 Essential Ingredients
President Obama’s plan to give a major economic speech after Labor Day means that, finally, Washington is going to have a serious conversation about creating jobs. And it can't come a moment too soon. While Thursday's stock market decline shouldn’t alarm you, the conditions that sparked it should. READ MORE >>
Eric Cantor's Pseudo-Economic Rationale
Eric Cantor is circulating a memo to House Republicans urging them to hang tough on their absolute opposition to any deficit reduction plan that includes higher revenue. He includes a little bit of apparent ballast to support his position: Raising taxes in this economy will only make it harder for working families and the very small businesses we are counting on to create jobs and get our economy going. READ MORE >>
