How Will This Look in the History Books?
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In May 2016, I saved this list of 33 examples of the ridiculous things that Donald Trump had said to that point. I am not sure why I did not post it. I suspect that I felt tha…
A Reading List on White Supremacy
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Progressive Messaging
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the lack of both unified and resonant messaging by candidates on the Progressive side of the ideological spectrum. I personally thi…
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Tweeting the “Witch Hunt”
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH CNN’s David Gelles has surveyed the number of times that President Trump has refereed to the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as a “witch h…
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Another Update from UnKoch My Campus
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This update is from Ralph Wilson: The Charles Koch Foundation changed their donor habits as a result of the pressure we’ve applied while exposing their strategy for undue dono…
Oxymoron of the Week: Congress Seeks to Fix Broken Higher Ed System
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In an article for Forbes, Tom Lindsay reports on the scope of the student debt problem as a preface to discussing H.R. 4508, legislation introduced by Virginia Foxx (R-NC) to …
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Explaining the Popularity of “Shark Week”
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Each year, “Shark Week” marks the persistently popular, binge recycling of the films in the Jaws franchise and several dozen documentaries about how sharks mercilessly hunt se…
Today, Mark Janus Retired as a Public Employee
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The general reaction seems to have been fairly uniform: But some people seem quite ecstatic at the news: While other people seem to be holding a grudge:
Wordplay V: (Mostly) Politics Edition
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In this series, I have highlighted headlines that are cleverly expressed, making use of puns, irony, figurative language, or unexpected word choices to grab a reader’s attenti…
Erdogan Assumes More Direct Control over Turkish Universities
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Over the past decade, the Erdogan regime in Turkey has been targeting opposition groups, especially in the military, the judiciary, the news media, and academia. These attacks…
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