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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Conservative energy mogul and billionaire “dark money” contributor Charles Koch yesterday complained about the unfair influence of corporations and the “privileged few” in politic […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Tuesday afternoon: media declares major NYC area snowstorm for Wednesday

Tuesday 9:17pm: I post a message to my courses Slack channel advising students that Wednesday’s 6PM class will be moved online to a […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

Last week, […]