Lauren Rankin points out over at TPM Cafe that welfare reform, like the kind that Paul Ryan has championed, has actually hurt women the most.
A real interesting discussion this week at TPMCafe’s Book Club about What Unions No Longer Do by Jake Rosenfeld. I’d urge you to start with Rosenfeld’s post on the big shift in the labor movement from private sector to government employees and how that has changed unions in fundamental ways.
Local news reports say Fred Phelps has been excommunicated from Westboro Baptist Church, the hate group he founded.
Hey Newsweek, if you’re having this much difficulty getting your hands on the statement put out by the supposed “face behind Bitcoin,” we have it here.
I venture into astrophysics blogging very carefully and only to say that if you’re a layperson like me having trouble understanding today’s announcement — which one scientists told the New York Times “will go down as one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science” — then perhaps this video from Nature will help:
CNN host Don Lemon finds a way to make the rest of the network’s speculation about the missing Malaysian airplane seem reasonable.
The man Newsweek identified as the “face behind Bitcoin” says he can’t even afford an internet connection.
This week we kick off TPM Book Club with sociology professor Jake Rosenfeld’s What Unions No Longer Do. First up, Rosenfeld argues that public sector unions won’t save the labor movement. We have MSNBC reporter Ned Resnikoff responding with his own critique of that argument. We’ll also be joined by Rich Yeselson and Sarah Jaffe this week.
I get told a lot I don’t take enough time off. So I’m taking the collective advice and going on vacation for a week. I’ll be somewhere outside the country with my family for the next week. I leave you in the able hands of our great team.
We’ll be taking The Hive offline at 7 PM eastern this evening for service and software upgrade. We believe it will take roughly an hour. But it’s possible it could run longer. Look forward to a cleaner, smooth Hive experience when we come back this evening.
Also, this upgrade is the first step to a new commenting architecture we will be debuting soon in the Editor’s Blog. So keep your eyes out for later this month.