Michael Patrick Cullinane

Nov 19, 2024 | thehill.com | Michael Patrick Cullinane

President-elect Trump has appointed billionaire businessman Elon Musk to lead a federal efficiency commission with former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. And Musk sees inefficiency everywhere. “Fire in any direction,” he told an online town hall meeting weeks before the election, “and you’re going to hit a target.”But austerity need not be the recipe for reform. In 1905, after Theodore Roosevelt won re-election, he appointed the first presidential commission on efficiency.

Dec 8, 2023 | historynet.com | Jon Bock |Michael Patrick Cullinane

From a ridge in the Samichon Valley known as the “Hook” Lance Cpl. Mike Mogridge watched as British artillery rained shells on an onslaught of Chinese infantry. Such was his introduction to the Korean War. The next morning, after the shelling had stopped and he and his mates had had breakfast, Mogridge and fellow soldiers clambered atop the Hook to gaze on the spectacle of pockmarked ground littered with the corpses and body parts of thousands of enemy troops.

Oct 25, 2023 | thehill.com | Michael Patrick Cullinane

The Justice Department has taken Google to court in the first anti-trust case of the internet age. The century long history of anti-trust lawsuits offers a lesson for today’s tech bros: Work with the regulator or face an endless barrage of litigation and court appearances. What’s happening with Big Tech happened with Big Oil, and Federal Trade Commissioner Lina Khan is using the history of trust busting to make her case. Lina Khan started at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2021.

Sep 27, 2023 | mhanational.org | Michael Patrick Cullinane

As a 46-year-old veteran high school teacher, I often worry my students will soon write me off with an “Okay, Boomer” response. Although a member of Generation X, technically I’m closer in age to my Baby Boomer predecessors than the Zoomers in my classroom, but they just see me as the older guy behind the desk. My students are navigating a world that looks a lot different from the one I grew up in.

Aug 24, 2023 | msn.com | Michael Patrick Cullinane

Researchers analyzed almost 700,000 college applications from white and Asian students and found that admissions at selective colleges rewarded privileged applicants who are disproportionately white. In other words, the report reinforces the idea that there is a potential open bias against Asian American applicants.