Blog Entries by Robert Engelman
Why Care About Projected U.S. Ethnicity and Age?
Someone remind me: Why should I care what the ethnic makeup of the United States might be in 2050? Or the median age?
The U.S. Census Bureau finds it newsworthy that its just-released projection of U.S. population shows that Americans will be "more racially diverse and much older by mid-century."...
40 Years Later, an "Infallible" Ban on Modern Birth Control
Posted July 24, 2008 | 10:14 PM (EST)
The pill, the pill,
I'm pining for the pill.
I'll never have any more
Because they're going to bless the pill.
That's the chorus of a song Scottish folksinger Matt McGinn wrote in 1968 after meeting a mother of 22 who wanted to try the pill. That...
Dorothea Brande was an American writer and editor, well known...
Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized President-elect...
Al Franken's campaign announced on Wednesday that, for the first time since the Minnesota...
A standup comic once joked about his inner monologue...
I recently wrote an article entitled "Deepak Chopra on Mumbai:...
Arianna appeared on the "Daily Show"...
DALLAS — Of all the cajoling, snide remarks and...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
Jon Stewart declared MSNBC the new Fox News Monday night on "The Daily Show,"...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
Who says these are bleak times? On...
via News Lite When The Beatles wrote 'I Am the Walrus'...
On Monday, Arianna wrote a piece about the terrifying state of America's economy. So, just like we did...
Posted August 14, 2008 | 06:42 PM (EST)