There's news today that major private banks are refusing to give loans any longer to students at community colleges and at "less prestigious" universities. Led (not surprisingly in many ways) by Citibank, some of the big private banks are pulling their loans, even though the...
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The Times's City Section this week has a feature on a program called Puppies Behind Bars, which places puppies with incarcerated men and women in NY state prisons. The "puppy.
Indexed's Jessica Hagy read my mind:via feministing.
Colbert is on fire here.
NY Governor Patterson has directed that NY will recognize out of state same-sex marriages. It's not totally clear from the NY Times article whether this includes civil unions that are.
One of the surest signs of spring in NY is not the return of chirping birds or the blossoming of the cherry trees, but the reappearance of women's legs on.
Don't elect judges. Simple as that. Because when you elect judges, you don't get impartial decision-making (to the extent that even exists), you don't get an environment that allows for the scrupulous acting out of exemplary legal ethics, and you certainly don't get people who...
I'm constantly dumbfounded by the lack of common sense in American criminal justice policy. Today's example: putting kids who are tried as adults in adult jails. The NY Times has.
Yesterday, I officially got my J.D. It was a bizarre and exciting culmination of a tough three years. And what do I get for celebration? I'm now sitting in my.
Reproductive healthcare in prisons in the U.S. sucks.First, there were prisons that were refusing to allow pregnant inmates to get abortions, even when the women could pay for the procedures themselves. The ACLU challenged the prison policies and won. Twice.But there are also - and...
I'm not sure, reading this NY Times story about "purity" balls, whether this incarnation of the ball beast is better or worse than the more common one, in which girls.
Remember that trip to Puerto Rico that I mentioned I was taking a while back once I had finished law school? Well, I finished law school today and I'm taking.