Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stated last Sunday that every Australian child should learn Mandarin, Hindi, or other regional languages as part of Australia's embrace of the Asian Century. Â While her new agenda set out in a 300 page report has received its...
A cultural milestone has been passed: Political science is now science-y enough that XKCD pays attention.
What?? It was too good to resist...
Florida Governor Rick Scott is considering changing the cost of different college majors at Florida's public colleges to influence students' choices. The reasoning is standard rightist dirigisme:...
Last year Nate Silver posted numbers going back to 1972. Bottom line: for Obama and Romney to be running roughly even at this point tracks with 2004--and represents an improvement for the Democrat over most pre-2004 cycles. Obama picked up a number of normally Republican-endorsing pages in 2008, which tracks with the general revulsion against the Bush era that swept the country that year. The fact that many of those pages are switching back looks more like a "reversion to the mean" than anything else. This also tracks with an important point about the "mainstream media": owners and editorial...
Follow Mitt Romney's storm tips on twitter. Remember that Sandy has already killed over 60 people in the Caribbean, and that many of those deaths are tied (in one way or another) to the unequal distribution of global wealth. Star Wars pork, or how to alienate the Jedi voting bloc? Over at The Disorder of Things, Pablo K. weighs in on the Human Security Report and engages with Megan's critique here at the Duck. Natural-resource policy for Burma. Daniel Little discusses "character" as an analytic category. And: I am amazed by the number of newspaper endorsements of Romney that (1) blame Obama...