Earlier this summer I was feeling down in the dumps about libraries. I was spending the month of June in Flushing, Queens, a melting-pot neighborhood where the local library bustles […]
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A love story for the 21st century (cue the violins). Several years ago a very close family friend in Vancouver was searching our family name on the Internet and had […]
I think it’s time to add the behavioral immune system to the long list of subconscious influences on our choices.
A growing body of research challenges whether most humans see “positive” emotions as better than ordinary ones—whether feeling happy actually leads, in the end, to a good life.
In Canada, older, affluent well-educated people merely follow the social media conversation on blogs, Facebook and Twitter that is created by young, upwardly mobile immigrants.
The 2012 elections may be largely about race. While the state of the economy may ultimately determine whether Obama wins or loses, the rhetoric in both the presidential and congressional […]
Finnish voters have ousted a pro-bailout government and hung a question mark over Europe’s plans to rescue Portugal and other debt-ridden economies.
One would expect the 150-year anniversary of the Italian state be something of a celebration. One would be wrong. The country is divided culturally, politically and economically.
As I’ve noted before, long-term demographic trends in the U.S. work against the Republican Party. As Michael Grunwald put it, the country is steadily becoming “less white, less rural, less Christian.” […]
n nThe people in the picture may look like doctors, but they’re actually two small business entrepreneurs from Queens making traditional Colombian flatbreads known as arepas. If you’ve ever spent […]
The Warmth Of Many Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is such a good book I am almost tempted to go back to school to become a professor just so I can […]
For years, architects and urban planners have occupied themselves with dreaming up clever new ways to revitalize America’s deteriorating urban centers – transforming warehouses into upscale lofts, finding creative new […]
A century ago, governments began to assert their authority over poor people and immigrants whose bad behavior was supposedly spreading epidemic diseases like smallpox, cholera and typhus. Cops in Boston […]
Who said satellite dishes in urban neighborhoods had to be an eyesore? Boing Boing points to a photo from Fox News that will change the way you think about satellite […]
In the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal (sub req), Robert Litan, Vice-President of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, weighed in with an op-ed piece on […]
According to some Republicans from New Hampshire, the answer to this question is yes.
By now everyone has heard (and heard again…and again) thatthe American baby boomers are aging. Even their Canadian cousins are aging – infact marginally grayer then their neighbor to the […]
Guest Blogger, Marion Ginopolis, is the former Superintendent of the Oxford Michigan Public Schools and Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded leadership/technology program, LEADing the Future. She […]
The economic downturn in the U.S. means it’s a good time to stitch together comprehensive and politically palatable policies on immigration reform.
“We might ask ourselves,” writes Noam Chomsky about the Bin Laden mission, “how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped […]
The Grant Hill Jalen Rose debacle captivated black bloggers all last week. I was out of town at the time the Fab Five special produced by Jalen Rose aired on […]
Prime Minister David Cameron has launched a devastating attack on 30 years of multiculturalism in Britain, warning it is fostering extremist ideology and contributing to Islamic terrorism.
by Guest Blogger, Marion Ginopolis Loosely extrapolated from the definition in Wikipedia, metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous […]
When arrested in 1936 during a protest over the dismissal of 500 artists from the WPAFederal Art Project, Lee Krasner told the unsuspecting police officer processing her that her name […]
Check out this excerpt from Michael McVey’s post at LeaderTalk. So very, very sad… ‘I read that the prestigious University of Chicago Business School will accept four-slide presentations from applicants […]
If there was a central theme to the president’s remarks, it was innovation. He called for more investment in education, research, science and clean energy.
People choose mates that are very similar to themselves in terms of education and income. They don’t tend to select partners who bring vastly different skill sets to the marriage.
Multiculturalism critic Kenan Malik: The very thing that diversity is good for is the very thing that multiculturalism as a political process undermines.
Following Congressional hearings this week on climate change, in a guest post today Ashley Brosius considers the origins of the partisan divide on the subject and suggests several possible paths […]
“Politics is like term papers,” says U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham. “You usually get serious right before the term paper is due. That’s the downside of democracy: without friction, there is […]