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.
The man Newsweek identified as the “face behind Bitcoin” says he can’t even afford an internet connection.
CNN host Don Lemon finds a way to make the rest of the network’s speculation about the missing Malaysian airplane seem reasonable.
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:
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.
Local news reports say Fred Phelps has been excommunicated from Westboro Baptist Church, the hate group he founded.
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.
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.
Chris Christie’s former campaign strategist doesn’t seem to have been hurt much by BridgeGate. He just landed a plum new job at a top GOP firm.
Breaking reports say a news helicopter has crashed in Seattle near the Space Needle.