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Paul Krugman made waves this week with his Rolling Stone essay, "In Defense of Obama." Krugman isn't one to shy away from criticizing the president but I wouldn't exactly call him the president's "most notable critics" since he is usually in the position of arguing in favor of Obama's policies. I fall into this category:
There's a different story on the left, where you now find a significant number of critics decrying Obama as, to quote Cornel West, someone who ''posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit.'' They're outraged that Wall Street hasn't been punished, that income inequality remains so high, that ''neoliberal'' economic policies are still in place. All of this seems to rest on the belief that if only Obama had put his eloquence behind a radical economic agenda, he could somehow have gotten that agenda past all the political barriers that have con- strained even his much more modest efforts. It's hard to take such claims seriously.Does the US really "soak the rich"? Yeah, no.
Justin Wolfers notes that the federal budget is back to normal. Don't worry, there's still a chance that we'll get a republican supermajority and president in 2016. That'll re-fuck the budge real quick.
How's that whole war on ISIS thing going? Hmm, not well it appears. Good, I was starting to think we might never have to send ground troops.
The campaign to dismantle the post office is kind of a textbook case for what the right is doing to all major governmental institutions. De-fund it. Strap it with unnecessary and expensive financial burdens. Force it to reduce services and close branches. Then decry the inefficient and poorly run government program. It's already starting with Social Security as rural offices throughout the country are being closed.
Dispatches from the oil boom.
At 9 p.m. on that August night, when I arrived for my first shift as a cocktail waitress at Whispers, one of the two strip clubs in downtown Williston, I didn’t expect a 25-year-old man to get beaten to death outside the joint. Then again, I didn’t really expect most of the things I encountered reporting on the oil boom in western North Dakota this past summer.How does economics impact the choice of parenting styles?
Given that the spread of higher education is unlikely to reverse, our theory predicts that authoritarian parenting will continue its current decline; a return to the tough methods advocated by the Bible is unlikely. Regarding permissive versus authoritative parenting, the evolution of the return to education is what matters. If the march towards higher inequality continues, the current era will mark the beginning of a sustained trend towards ever pushier parenting. If, on the other hand, today’s inequality trends prove to be an aberration and we return to the less unequal times of the 1970s, future children (and their parents) will be able to enjoy a relaxed childhood once more.Sara Kliff asks what's wrong with Texas? After all, three other hospitals were able to treat Ebola without incident.
It's been yet another bad week for women in technology. The 2014 Women in Computing Grace Hooper Celebration featured a male allies panel that went off the rails.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had his own advice for female tech workers. Apparently he sees 'not asking for a raise' and 'faith in the system' as some kind of female superpowers. Yikes!
Since D&D allows for almost any kind of behavior, it's no surprise that the designers and "theorists" behind it aren't very concerned about what happens to female players.
Do New Atheists have a woman problem?
Selfies in Mecca. New media takes the hajj.
VICE decided to send a reporter to interview all the people named Hitler.
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