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A History for the Future interview on the wilderness movement, public lands, and environmental politics since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964.
A History for the Future interviewJim Crow in action: As Miami’s population boomed, where residents came to live was limited by strict lines drawn through the region’s geography, lines that divided white and black, workers and elites.
These data visualizations take you inside the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data to let you decide.
A History for the Future interviewHow the history profession narrowed over time. Who became marginalized. The importance of valuing things other than the production of book-length manuscripts on narrowly defined subjects.
The PWA built over 700 projects in NY from 1933-39Viz shows scope, type of projects built in New York under New Deal's Public Works Administration. Inflation-adjusted cost exceeded $6 billion.- Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw, writing in The New York Times, wants you to believe that a worker's acceptance of a job for no more than minimum wage and a person's acceptance of a pre-ACA, bare bones insurance policy reflect voluntary arrangements. Even a moment's consideration shows there is nothing genuinely voluntary about either of these arrangements.
- No action on bill that would stop corporations that try to avoid taxes by shirking their American citizenship.
A History for the Future interviewAn interview with the editor of a new collection of essays on John Lindsay’s mayoralty. A very different time in New York City, and a very different vision of governing it.- Market-based solutions have failed to work. Yet having the government manufacture some of the drugs remains the option that no one considers. Why not?
Labor force participation rate able to be assessed across scores of 4-element demographic composites.- The governor assures New Yorkers that there is a budgetary surplus that can fund a tax cut and that there’s even money to fund universal, state-wide pre-K without a tax increase. But would the money be available if the governor were honoring what the state’s highest court has determined to be the funding level necessary to meet the obligation to provide a “sound basic education” to all students?
- Lawsuit highlights state's failure to fund K-12 at level agreed necessary in 2007.
Lake Powell: lovely, but way too emptyDoes continued growth equal regional death?
Two new data tools. Which occupations have so many high paid workers that they bust the current BLS survey method's ability to measure closely?
Jake Rosenfeld's "What Unions No Longer Do" examines the enormous consequences of the long-term decline of the labor movement.
A History for the Future interviewA discussion with Mason Williams on Fiorello La Guardia’s critical role in implementing the New Deal in the New York City context, his vision of the role of government, and what the city’s current mayor could learn from the predecessor he most admires.