Last week North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry proposed changing the face on the $50 bill from Ulysses S. Grant to Ronald Reagan. In an excellent op-ed this past Sunday, Princeton Historian Sean Wilentz argued (with due respect to Reagan) that Grant should stay the face of the $50 bill: RONALD REAGAN deserves posterity’s honor, [...]
How’s this for awkward: some lots of Microsoft employees use iPhones. It’s not that surprising if you think about it, the iPhone is the hottest phone out there. Techies like the ones who work at major software companies are going to be drooling over hardware like that, even if it wasn’t a hit for the [...]
The forecast for the future of Texas education wasn’t looking good, but things have finally taken a turn for the worse: The Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, [and] questioning the Founding Fathers’ [...]
Last week my Consider colleague Daniel Strauss wrote an intriguing post about the possibility that the Internet could be a human right someday. Seems like a distant, utopian goal, right? Well, it looks like the future may come sooner than we thought: The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine [...]
The US Court of Federal Claims’ ruling: The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has ruled that vaccinations — or, more specifically, thimerosal, an additive in some vaccinations — does not cause autism. The court considered three separate claims for damages, but ruled Friday in each of them that the vaccinations the children received were unconnected [...]
My friends Ned and Jamelle together make an intriguing argument about the internet: it could become a human right. Now hear me out here. The internet is becoming increasingly necessary to interact at any normal level with the rest of the world. Think about it school wise. If you’re a student here at Michigan but [...]
