New York Times op-ed columnist Michelle Goldberg has a piece today reviewing Betsy Devos’s interview with Lesley Stahl on CBS’s 60 Minutes last Sunday. Goldberg describes the inte […]
New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof weighs in this morning on President Trump’s decision to meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. Kristof does not see this as a good idea and fea […]
Jerome Kagan, the Daniel and Amy Starch Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, has a new book entitled, Five Constraints on Predicting Behavior, that focuses […]
Yesterday, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed into law an array of gun limits that included raising the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 and extending the waiting period to t […]
Conservative energy mogul and billionaire “dark money” contributor Charles Koch yesterday complained about the unfair influence of corporations and the “privileged few” in politic […]
We were clobbered by another Nor’Easter yesterday especially in New Jersey and Westchester County. Where I am we had about twelve inches of snow although there were drifts as hi […]
Fei-Fei Li, professor of computer science at Stanford University and chief scientist for A.I. Research at Google Cloud, has an op-ed in today’s New York Times making the case for d […]
Dear Commons Community,
The statewide teachers’ strike that shuttered West Virginia schools for almost two weeks appeared all but over yeterday when Gov. James C. Justice signed a bill to give teachers and o […]
Gary D. Cohn, President Trump’s top economic adviser, said yesterday that he would resign, becoming the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the Trump a […]
The University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point issued a statement from its Office of Communications annnouncing plans to create or expand sixteen academic programs in career and p […]
Lynda G. Dodd is suing City College of New York for denying her early tenure citing discrimination because she was diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis. This will be an interesting […]
Various news media are reporting that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio this afternoon named current Houston Superintendent Richard Carranza as the New York City’s schools […]
President Donald Trump addressed a meeting of Republican donors on Saturday during which he commented that the “invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the single worst decision ever made.” Trum […]
Winter Storm Riley is leaving a devastating wake of destruction up and down the East Coast. Nine are dead and two million households and businesses lost electrical power. In […]
I have just finished reading Niall Ferguson’s new book, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power from the Freemasons to Facebook. Ferguson is an historian and a senior fel […]
I hope all of you who live and work up and down the East Coast weathered yesterday’s storm well. Here in New York, many homes are without power and/or cable service.