The policy successes of the ACA has led to plenty of evasive maneuvers. Still, I think Kevin Williamson might have the very silliest: Let’s assume that the Bay Area partisans are correct in their high estimation of the metropolis. What might we do with that...
Month: June 2014
I was impressed with Obvious Child.
On June 27, 1905, at a convention in Chicago, the Industrial Workers of the World was founded. The IWW would play a major role in the industrial warfare of the.
Today's winner in stupid punditry goes to Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry for his piece about Vox and "the intellectual stagnation of the left." I'm not even going to address the idea that Vox is somehow on the left, which it is only if our definition of left...
As with the EPA ruling earlier in the week, I'd say that at least it could have been a lot worse. Elsewhere, see Sarah Posner on "sidewalk counselors," Simon Waxman.
For reasons I've discussed at length, I don't agree with the majority's judgment in NLRB v. Canning. However, I am happy that thanks to Kennedy the Court didn't quite go.
I'm not sure that I'm quite as pessimistic as labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about the early 21st century South. But he's certainly right about the attempt to reinstitute white supremacy. We used to call it the “New South.” That was the era after Reconstruction and...
All those liberals driving Priuses make big strong tough American white men feel threatened. So they typically have to bully others. In small towns across America, manly men are customizing.
Have you heard about Jeremy Meeks, the "hot felon?" Well, meet Jeremy Meeks: he's a felon and he's undeniably hot. And apparently, even in this day and age, that makes.
The European companies seeking to improve factory conditions in Bangladesh are facing resistance from the factory owners who are heavily invested in the current system, politically powerful, and don't care about dead workers. We might read this resistance as a sign that there's really nothing...
Let's hope Walter Dellinger is prescient about yesterday's big Fourth Amendment case: Thirdly, the court may no longer be the head cheerleader for the war on drugs. The Supreme Court.
A point sometimes made by defenders of the legal academic status quo is that while nominally tuition has gone up a lot, actual tuition increases have been much more moderate,.