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While I have linked many times to incidents of police violence, I have very little to say about the actions of police unions, largely because I don't care about them.
A company called Gilded Age Greetings is creating Christmas cards for the New Gilded Age: Just when you thought Christmas couldn't get any more expensive... a card company has started.
People write things in the intarwebs. These are some of them: Tom Slee on Uber. Molly Lambert on Paul Thomas Anderson. Why third parties aren't a solution to anything. The term "gentrification" has become nearly as meaningless as "hipster." Finally, the New York media addresses...
It goes without saying, to me at least, that American companies should have no right to receive compensation for their Cuban property seized in 1959. Making corporate claims a major.
An LGM reader writes: I just graduated from law school this past spring, and passed the bar. I applied for a job and completed a phone interview. The actual "interview".
This point from Sarah Kliff's valuable account of why single-payer failed in Vermont is crucial: In a way, the fact that America hasn’t taken serious steps to control health spending makes it particularly hard for the country to move to a single-payer system in the...
This is a good piece on Marshawn Lynch's refusal to talk to the NFL media. The journalists are furious at him for this. And the piece gets it right--it's not.
I neglected to mention this last week, but let me say a quick word lauding the Obama Administration for extending workplace protection rights to transgender people, at least in the.
The always valuable Economic Policy Institute has its top 10 charts of 2014. They mostly say the same thing in different ways--there is an enormous crisis in income inequality and wage stagnation that is concentrating wealth in the 1% while leaving the rest of us...
Amanda Hollis-Brusky on the 70th anniversary of Korematsu: In the events leading up to and including the Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu, these safeguards built into the Madisonian machine broke.
Tomaksy: And now we can’t even acknowledge this plain truth? Astonishingly, it appears we can’t agree on it. Right around the time de Blasio spoke, Marist was in the field.