Rebecca Delaney

Tackling unpaid internships at Inside Higher Ed, Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun fears the Department of Labor’s recent clampdown on illegally unpaid internships could discourage employers from bringing students on board because of cost. Instead of depending on the government, he argues, colleges should step in and police unpaid internships themselves to ensure they […]

The Times is keeping debate over unpaid internships percolating with a piece that could have been ghostwritten by the folks at Stuff White People Like. The article looks at how the Obama administration’s shift toward stricter enforcement of minimum-wage laws is hurting honest, hard-working rich kids who can’t find a place to perform indentured servitude […]

A variety of reactions to today’s disappointing unemployment numbers: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ Chad Stone: “Under these circumstances, policymakers should have no qualms about passing a robust jobs bill — indeed, they would be derelict not to.” White House Economic Adviser Cristina Romer: “The fact that the unemployment rate fell and private […]

Depressed about the oil spill? This (fake) BP public-relations Twitter feed, BPGlobalPR offers some dark humor. A sample: Just got 100k followers and our oil is headed to Florida. You know what this means… WE’RE GOING TO DISNEYWORLD! #bpcares We don’t want to alarm anyone, but the robot didn’t get stuck. It stopped on it’s […]

The founders would’ve scoffed at separation of church and state. Thus speaketh Sarah Palin: “Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our Founding Fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.” Personal faith of the Founders aside, try mulling this […]

Julian Sanchez disembowels The American Spectator’s Daniel Oliver for his curiously terrible take on The New York Times‘ coverage of the Catholic Church’s sex-abuse scandal. Oliver’s beef? The Times is bowing to the vast homosexual conspiracy scientific consensus. It’s OK, Mr. Oliver. Sometimes I forget that being gay is not the same as being a […]