The post-mortems dissecting Hillary Clinton’s loss to Barack Obama are beginning to trickle in, and for the most part what they have to say is unobjectionable. Whenever a contest is as close as the one between Obama and Clinton was, there are any number of things that might have tipped the balance one way or […]
K.A. Geier
K.A. Geier blogs at The G Spot.
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Seven Ways Hillary Clinton Changed Our Politics
How did Hillary Clinton affect the 2008 Election, and progressive politics, over the course of the primary?
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WHY RECESSIONS ARE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH.
Via Mark Thoma, I came across this fascinating interview with economist Christopher Ruhm. I’m familiar with Ruhm’s research on paid family leave policies, and I plan to do a post or two about paid family leave soon. What I didn’t realize is that Ruhm does a bunch of other interesting research as well. One topic […]
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GLOBALIZATION AND THE UNIVERSITY
In an interesting piece in Britain’s The Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash asks a provocative question: “[C]an we, in Europe, have social justice in higher education and world-class research universities? Or must we choose?” As Ash explains, globalization has hit the British university system, and universities have become “as much a global market as that for […]
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ELIZABETH DREW’S MASH NOTE TO JIM WEBB.
ELIZABETH DREW’S MASH NOTE TO JIM WEBBElizabeth Drew is clearly diggin’ that manly Aqua Velva scent. After I read Drew’s adoring profile of the Democratic Virginia senator (and blushing veepstakes hopeful) James Webb in the new issue of the New York Review of Books, I knew it reminded me of something. For a while I […]
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EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT SWEDEN IS WRONG.
Editor’s Note: Guest-bloggers are back! This week we’re proud to have K.A. Geier. First off, let me just say that I’m delighted to be guest blogging here on Tapped this week. If you’re interested in reading more of my stuff, do visit my personal blog, The G Spot. Megan McArdle’s recent post on the cultural […]