Dana Goldstein: I recently picked up Ross Perlin's "Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy." The book is a scathing critique of intern culture, which Perlin indicts as "unethical" and "illegal" for all the expected reasons: Low- and middle-income students don't...
Month: June 2011
Odd how searches with nothing resembling probable cause tend to be enforced in a racially discriminatory manner.
Over at the United Steelworkers blog, Dean Baker unloads on Alan Simpson and the idea that Simpson knows anything useful about Social Security: Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson has been.
I'd like to start my first post at LGM by thanking everyone else here for asking me to join the blog. I've been blogging in obscurity at Alterdestiny since 2004 and expanding my audience by 20 times or more is going to be fun. I...
First, I'd like to thank Charli for her contribution to LGM. She has moved to other projects for the time being, but we hope that someday she'll be able to.
I approached yesterday's decision on the Ashcroft DOJ's practice of using material witness warrants as a pretext to detain suspects without probable cause with a certain weary resignation; I don't.
Comparative lessons. It's also worth remembering that one of the things these countries don't do is fire lots of teachers based on extensive standardized testing and hope a whole bunch of good teachers magically show up to replace them.
Rand Paul-inspired edition: He’s not unusual. There are genuine libertarians out there. But political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom.