Via Zach Seward‘s Twitter feed, James Von Brunn apparently edited Wikipedia to identify the wife of WWII-era Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Rose Frances Witz, as an “Orthodox Jew.” TPM finds that Von Brunn was one of the crazies who believed President Obama is not a citizen. And apparently author Tom Clancy had a correspondence […]
Dana Goldstein
Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.
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HOLOCAUST MUSUEM SHOOTER IS WHITE SUPREMACIST.
According to NBC, the man who shot a security guard and potentially one to two other people at the Holocaust Museum today is 89-year-old James W. Von Brunn. Von Brunn maintains a white-supremacist Web site, HolyWesternEmpire.org. The biography of Von Brunn on the site states that he spent over six years in federal prison for […]
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DURING RECESSION, REIMAGINING THE AMERICAN MALE.
The idea that this recession represents a feminist watershed is, sadly, bunk. While it’s true that 49 percent of the work force is female and that men are getting laid off at a faster rate than women, occupational segregation means that women are still more likely to be employed in jobs with irregular hours, no […]
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RANDI, RHEE, AND KLEIN: WE DON’T TRUST STATE-LED STANDARDS PUSH.
Yesterday afternoon I attended a round table debate between American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, New York City schools Chancellor Joel Klein, and D.C. schools Superintendent Michelle Rhee. The event was hosted by Democracy. If you don’t follow education policy, let me break down for you, briefly, why the theatrics here were exciting: Weingarten, […]
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OLD WHITE DUDE DEFENDS SOTOMAYOR.
My friend Avi Zenilman has done an excellent interview with William Bowen, who was president of Princeton during Sonia Sotomayor‘s undergraduate years. Bowen selected Sotomayor as the recipient of the prestigious Pyne Prize for academics and leadership. He is also an expert on affirmative action. My favorite part of the interview addresses the critique that […]
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FOR CYCLISTS, STRENGTH IN NUMBERS.
I just spent several days in New York, and I can report back that while bike commuting isn’t as popular there as it is in D.C., cycle density has certainly increased. That’s good news, because as Streetsblog reports with the graph above, when more people bike, biking is safer. As our dearly departed Ezra Klein […]
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WHY THE AMERICAN JEWISH RIGHT-WING FRINGE MATTERS.
I don’t know quite what to make of the Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana video Adam discusses below. In the video, American Jewish teenagers in Jerusalem spout casual racism in response to President Obama‘s Cairo speech, asserting that Obama deserves to be shot, is Muslim and “a terrorist,” and that Israel “is ours.” Let’s be […]
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OBAMA ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN CAIRO.
At UN Dispatch, Peter Daou has some harsh words about the women’s rights segment of Obama‘s Cairo speech. Indeed, the issue of Muslim women’s right to wear the hijab in Western Europe was clearly chosen because of its political expedience — an opportunity to side with the Muslim world over our traditional Western allies — […]
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LGBT PRIDE MONTH.
Late yesterday afternoon, the White House emailed reporters a presidential proclamation regarding LGBT pride month. There is no mention of marriage rights, which is unsurprising, considering President Obama‘s stated opposition to calling same-sex unions “marriage.” But the White House still portrays itself as a good friend to the gay community: My Administration has partnered with […]
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46 STATES JOIN COALITION FOR NATIONAL EDU STANDARDS.
This is a breaking story about which I’ll have more to say in a column next week, but today the National Governors’ Association announced that 46 states and the District of Columbia have joined a coalition in favor of common academic standards. Only South Carolina, Alaska, Missouri, and Texas have held back. From the NGA […]
