This summer the Politics and Government Department set up an account with Kiva . Kiva is a microlending organization that allows individual...

You certainly wouldn't get any argument from me on that--standard introductory political science. But what's with all the billboard...

CIEE proudly announces the opening of applications for our second Teach in Chile program: http://www.ciee.org/teach/choose_program/teach_chi...

From Colleen Gause '06: I have been keeping busy at the Trade Center since we last saw each other in June. We’ve had several events and...

Megan Buscho 'o6 writes: I wanted to see if you would post something about the non-profit I am working at New Visions for Public Schools...

I was thinking about the prediction markets today. I'm not much of a gambler, myself, but I'm interested in the ways in which marke...

Morgan writes: I just wanted to give you a quick update on where I'm at and what's going on. I finished my contract at Microsoft in ...

A short piece in the Wall Street Journal on how recent grads should approach their new job in its first ninety days. The main points: Find ...

A ways back we profiled Jennifer DeLury Ciplet '98, who has been managing director of Amazon Watch. But time marches on and Jennifer h...

Julie Housh '06 updates us with what she's been doing, her job in DC, weighs in on the value of doing an internship and offers one t...

Monday I hiked up part of Mt Rainier with a friend who is a professor of political science at Corvinus University in Budapest. He'd ju...

A piece in the Wall Street Journal on the complexities when your social network includes co-workers, including your boss. Social network s...

I just heard from Melanie Choy '98 that she's just taken a job with the California Endowment , whose mission is to "expand acce...

A lot, according to the New York Times. They've got an essay contest going in response to a piece penned with the title above. You can...

The other day I was down on Ruston Way and saw an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane fly overhead. This is a Boeing product,...

This was sent along by Josh Cole '09; rather than try to recap, I'll simply cut and paste. Pretty interesting idea; Josh wants to t...

Source: State Department's July 4th Photo Gallery Happy July 4 to everyone out there in the blogosphere! Be careful with those firecrac...

The European Union has launched its own channel on YouTube , with all sorts of videos. What kinds of things would the EU post on YouTube? ...

I was aware that for some time there has been access to recordings of presidential meetings going back to the Kennedy Administration (and ea...

No post to speak of for today or tomorrow. Tomorrow I'm off to Bellevue to present at their Advanced Placement workshop on teaching hig...