by Mike Kimel Interactions Between Black People and the Police A lot of Americans want the police reigned in, particularly when it comes to their interactions with Black people. Black people are more likely to be stopped by police than people of other ethnicities, and sometimes those stops end badly. My take on this issue […]

by Mike Kimel Clinton’s Judgment Via the Washington Post, this quote from the NY Times: Mrs. Clinton say she may decide to retain Ms. Lynch, the nation’s first black woman to be attorney general, who took office in April 2015. The Post article goes on: about the appearance of impropriety: Lynch remains the person responsible […]

 by Joseph Joyce The Impact of Financial Globalization on the Brexit Vote The reasons for the majority vote in favor of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union will be studied and analyzed for years to come. Globalization in the form of migration—or fear of migration—played a considerable role. Support for leaving the EU was […]

Via Alternet: “Reigniting Competition in the American Economy”: Keynote Remarks at New America’s Open Markets Program Event By Elizabeth Warren June 29, 2016 Thank you, thank you. As Barry mentioned, before I was a senator, I was a law professor. What he didn’t say is that I taught contracts, secured transactions, and bankruptcy—all courses related […]

by Mike Kimel “Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Advanced Degrees” I stumbled on a website run by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that looks at the Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Advanced Degrees\ Here’s a graph from that page: Here’s a follow-up graph: