When I got a PlayStation 3 some months ago, Adam teased me a bit — he’s an XBOX 360 owner — but of the big three (Wii, PlayStation and XBOX) consoles, it made the most sense to me. It was the system I had the most (albeit, still limited) familiarity with, and I could stream […]
Shani Hilton
Shani Hilton is associate editor of Campus Progress. You can find her blogging here.
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The Political Novel We Deserve
O: A Presidential Novel doesn’t get the 24-hour news cycle. And perhaps that should tell us something.
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Women in Combat.
Amanda Terkel reports that a military advisory panel says the ban on women soldiers engaging in direct ground combat is discriminatory: “The Commission recommends that DoD and Services remove a structural barrier for women,” reads the report, which commissioners met to review Thursday and Friday. “The current DoD and Service policies barring women from direct […]
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Ignoring the Facts on Race and Homeownership Gaps.
Mark Calabria at Cato points to an NBER working paper that finds the gap between white and black home ownership narrowed considerably between 1870 and 1910: In 1870 the gap between white and African-American homeownership rates stood at an astonishing 48.8 percent. As mentioned, this gap in 2007 was 22.5%, representing a 26.3 percentage point […]
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Giffords and the Women Who Run.
One thing that stands out in Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s (D-Fla.) account of their hospital visit to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords yesterday — Giffords managed to open her eyes and squeeze their hands — is their description of the friendship the three share: REPRESENTATIVE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I think I told you […]
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Doing a Disservice to “Western Mothers.”
Mikhail Zinshteyn, a writer at Campus Progress (and a former TAP intern) has an interesting take on controversy around Amy Chua’s “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” piece: Perhaps most frustrating about Chua’s essay is how impractical her approach to parenting is for most American families. It’s terribly time-consuming for the parent to be so thoroughly […]
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The Cable Will Be Alright.
New York magazine reports that Conan O’Brien’s new show on TBS is the top late-night show for viewers under 50…with a catch: TBS’s numbers are so-called “live plus seven” figures, which mean they counts folks who catch up on Coco within a week of each show’s broadcast. Late-night shows historically haven’t bragged about getting huge […]
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The Death of a Ladyblog.
Salon has closed its woman-focused site Broadsheet, which is probably one of the longest-running news blogs targeting women; it was started in 2005. Salon editor-in-chief, Kerry Lauerman, writes: For much of the last year, Broadsheet has been a one-woman show performed by Tracy Clark-Flory. She’s done a terrific job, but it’s time for her to […]
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The Mathematics of (White) Beauty.
Dating site OkCupid has released its latest user study — which appear periodically on the site’s blog — this time focusing on beauty and women. After promising to get to the male users at some point, author Christian Rudder dives into the data, which apparently reveals: [W]hen some men think you’re ugly, other men are […]
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A National Online Password?
Well, this is interesting: President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today. It’s “the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government” to centralize efforts toward creating an “identity ecosystem” for the Internet, White […]