I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
There’s a new emergency contraceptive pill on the horizon. “Ella” is available in 22 countries, is twice as effective as Plan B (the drug that’s now available over the counter) and it works for at least 120 hours, compared to Plan B’s 72 hours. But it appears headed for an approval fight at the Food and Drug Administration.
Although there are several high-profile women candidates running for office this year, “the incoming GOP class in Congress will be virtually bereft of women; only 7 of 105 candidates at various stages of the NRCC’s Young Guns program are women. That’s a lower percentage of women than they already represent in the GOP Conference,” according to the National Journal.
Many of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s writings from her tenure during President Bill Clinton’s terms in office have been gathered by his presidential library. You can see them here. Politico tackles what the documents say about Kagan (essentially: she is a political animal, if a careful one).
And “Sen. Tom Coburn Vows No Creampuff questions for Elena Kagan,” reports Politics Daily.
“The End of Men,” is a fascinating piece in the July/August issue of The Atlantic. Preview: “Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way— and its vast cultural consequences.”
And “It’s Not The End of Men,” a rebuttal to that piece by Ann Friedman in The American Prospect: “It’s disappointing that, despite a history of sharp observations about gender and 5,000 words to work with, Rosin makes the same oversight as all of the other hand-wringing articles about the state of the American male. She thinks the problem is men; really, it’s traditional gender stereotypes.”
