politics | Links of great interest

nicki has How teachers unions work (in the USA)

jae has a fascinating series: Dutch politics through the eyes of a Canadian

whatistigerbalm has a WIP series on a still popular book that is praised as a primr about interwar Yugoslavia by Rebecca West Black Lamb and Grey Falcon critique The thing with historical books written by outsiders with great honking biases of which they are not aware, is that these books become the prism through which analysts and experts try to understand modern day politics and then convey that understanding to their listeners. As we can see, that can lead to some redonkulous nonsense passed off as making sense of already complex situations.

haddayr links to an article detailing a disability rights group's occupation of the Wisconsin Republican Party headquarters, because the same budget that is attacking unions righs to collectively bargain is also demanding nasty cuts to Medicaid.Not just unions