http://mtc.vox.com/library/posts/tags/politics/page/1/ Ben Guest, Program Manager of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Namibia, and Amherst College graduate... en Vox Fri, 16 May 2008 07:28:08 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss politics http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/mississippi-1.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/mississippi-1.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/mississippi-1.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 16 May 2008 07:28:08 -0700 Article in today's New York Times (emphasis is mine): Still, it would take a shift in the electoral dynamic — a substantial stumble by John McCain, for instance — for Mr. Obama to put in play a state like Mississippi, where whites gave John Kerr... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/mississippi-1.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900fae8b9e064000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics mississippi obama http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/maep.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/maep.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/maep.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:54:45 -0700 MAEP, the basic funding formula for K-12 education in Mississippi, was fully funded today. Key quote: This is the first time lawmakers have fully funded MAEP, a complex formula that provides money to schools to meet midlevel performance goals, ou... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/maep.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f325d80005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics education mississippi finance maep http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/salute.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/salute.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/salute.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:26:56 -0700 Does it seem right that we give the Pope a 21 gun salute? A crowd of up to 12,000 is due at the White House on Wednesday morning for the pope's official, pomp-filled arrival ceremony. It will feature the U.S. and Holy See anthems, a 21-gun salut... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/salute.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cee238c0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> religion politics http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-of-the-week-2.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-of-the-week-2.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-of-the-week-2.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:32:21 -0800 How does Consumer Reports buy all the products they tests? Through secret shoppers... Exxon still hasn't compensated those damaged by the Valdez spill 19 years ago. Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't see why they should... How dangerous is ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-of-the-week-2.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48ce07cf40003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> internet prison politics mississippi innocent consumer reports http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-of-the-week-1.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-of-the-week-1.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-of-the-week-1.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:42:26 -0800 Give Kucinich his due. Intense, well-written account of the soldiers of Battle Company, waging a losing fight with insurgents in Afghanistan. And with the pressures of five and six tours in combat: As Giunta said, “The richest, most-trained a... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-of-the-week-1.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cfcfb140001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics mississippi new york times afghanistan the wire mccain superintendent kucinich david simon http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/looking-at-america.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/looking-at-america.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/looking-at-america.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:17:02 -0800 Last links of 2007: Wow. Devastating NYT editorial that sums up America in the Bush years. This is us. This is who we are... At the beginning of the War in Iraq, columnist Christopher Hitchens challenged young people to put their ideals forwa... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/looking-at-america.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398cd8eb10005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> war politics iraq george bush kucinich http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/book-review-the-conscience-of-a-liberal.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/book-review-the-conscience-of-a-liberal.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/book-review-the-conscience-of-a-liberal.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:19:19 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398c1716a0001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398c1716a0001-50si" alt="The Conscience of a Liberal" /></a> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398c191250003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398c191250003-50si" alt="Civil Rights Act of 1964" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I'm a big Paul Krugman fan (he appeals to my rational side because, as an economist at heart, he backs everything up with numbers). Between Krugman, Steven Levitt, David Berri, (as well as Malcolm Gladwell, who has written about all three), and ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/book-review-the-conscience-of-a-liberal.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398c172dc0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics paul krugman movement conservatives http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/global-warming.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/global-warming.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/global-warming.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:12:56 -0700 One of the world's pre-eminent scientists says that Gobal Warming is now irreversible. He expects 6 billion people to die in the next hundred years. "But for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting..." Read the article here... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/global-warming.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b9e1b90004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> science politics global warming gaia lovelock http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/what-im-reading-now.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/what-im-reading-now.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/what-im-reading-now.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:51:35 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b267f40002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b267f40002-50si" alt="The Conscience of a Liberal" /></a> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b28ff50005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b28ff50005-50si" alt="Marion Jones: Life in the Fast Lane - An Illustrated Autobiography" /></a> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/video/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b290430005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b290430005-50si" alt="2000 Olympics" /></a> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/video/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b2905b0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b2905b0005-50si" alt="2007 Press Conference" /></a> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b27e610004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b27e610004-50si" alt="The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" /></a> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/video/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b290f50003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b290f50003-50si" alt="Naomi Klein on Bill Maher" /></a> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/video/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b272270001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b272270001-50si" alt="The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein" /></a> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/video/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b2919a0004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b2919a0004-50si" alt="Children of Men Six Minute Gun Battle in One Take" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Paul Krugman is one of my favorite columnists. This book is his recap of how big business and the ultra-rich have co-opted the Republican Party and, more importantly, this country. Krugman also keeps a blog that he updates frequently. Marion ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/what-im-reading-now.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398b2903e0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics children of men naomi klein paul krugman shock doctrine marion jones tim layden