The following was written by Terrance Heath for the Progressive Breakfast blog of the Campaign for America’s Future. It is reposted here with the permission of Roger Hickey, co-director of the campaign. Its mission statement is very much worth reading and available at: https://ourfuture.org/about-us/campaign. _________________________ “No Go Zone” on the Brain In January, we learned…
So, Hillary Clinton’s very safe, if momentarily controversial prediction that Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim pronouncements would become material for ISIS recruitment videos has been proven accurate. Here is a summary from the Far-Right news service Newsmax: “Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is featured in a new terrorist recruitment video, according to multiple news reports. “In the…
Dear Fellow Workers, Compatriots, and Friends from around the World: Happy New Year! Toward the end of 2015, the labor community in China experienced an unprecedented attack. A group of activists who have dedicated years to defending the rights and interests of workers were detained, monitored and interrogated by the police. It could have been…
The following statistics are from an article published by Business Insider, which is itself based on statistics reported by USA Today. #25 Jim Mora — $3.35 million School: UCLA Conference: Pac-12 School Salary: $3.35 million Other Pay: $0 Potential Bonus: $0.93 million Championships (conference/national): 0/0 #24 Chris Petersen — $3.40 million School: Washington Conference: Pac-12…
News Leadership “How Missouri’s Deans Plotted to Get Rid of Their Chancellor” By Jack Stripling Bowen Loftin’s resignation as chief of the flagship campus at Columbia has been cast as fallout from racial discord there. That’s not even the half of it. Faculty “A Professor, a Graduate Student, and 2 Careers Derailed” By…
1. Greater than the Sum of Its Parts October 3rd | Science and technology Over a century of interbreeding between America’s wild coyotes, wolves and dogs has created a new species: the coywolf. The genetic mix means the animal has the size and strength of a wolf and the social nature of a dog. The new…
This brief item appears at Phys.org: “American household Christmas lights, a favorite holiday tradition, use up more electricity than some poorer countries—such as El Salvador or Ethiopia—do in a year. “Bright lights strung on American trees, rooftops and lawns account for 6.63 billion kilowatt hours of electricity consumption every year, according to a recent blog post by the Center…
Writing for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution [31 Dec. 2015: A,1], Nedra Rhone reports on the rise in organized student activism nationwide but especially in greater Atlanta. In the article “Today’s Student Activists: On Fire against a Gumbo of Issues,” she emphasizes that this new wave of student activism is targeting more than racism, addressing issues “from…
Yesterday, Joerg Tiede posted an excerpt from his new book about the AAUP’s 1915 Declaration of Principles. Tiede noted that although the Declaration was presented on December 31, 1915, the AAUP members did not vote to approve it until January 1, 1916. So on this, the centennial of the of the slightly misdated Declaration, it’s…
The following item was written by Peter Dreier for the blog Talking Union: “Fred Hiatt, the Washington Post’s editorial page editor, has fired columnist Harold Meyerson, one of the nation’s finest journalists and perhaps the only self-proclaimed socialist to write a weekly column for a major American newspaper during the past decade or two. “At…