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Speaking of the new Gilded Age, Sara Robinson has an outstanding piece on the decline of the 40 hour work week. Many interesting points. Robinson puts a lot of blame.
Calacatta marble. The author of this is a 2008 NYU law school grad, who is currently unemployed, living with his parents, and over $150,000 in debt.
Outstanding Christopher Ketcham story on the delisting of wolves from the Endangered Species Act and the plans to wipe them out in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. There is much that is disturbing--people's hatred of wolves, the incredible and damaging power of the ranching industry in the...
Josh Foust and I discuss the recent massacre in Afghanistan:
This will probably earn me the scorn of the hard-drinking LGM crew, but I was very interested to see this post on the return of low-alcohol beers. I may have.
For reasons that I'm sure were not at all self-interested, Graham Spanier fought hard against the application of the state's Right to Know Law to his particular public institution: The law presumes that virtually all records of an agency are public. State and local government agencies,...
The New York Times has published an interesting op-ed by Greg Smith, a soon to be former director of the investment bank Goldman Sachs. The gist of the piece is.
A commenter raises the perennial question of whether it is possible to interpret the commerce clause in a way that would allow us to argue that, say, the enforcement of.
I am shocked, shocked by the lack of a Mississippi-Alabama-Hawaii results thread. Do the readers of LGM not deserve the sort of close analysis of Mississippi regional politics that only the commenters of LGM can provide? I mean, what else is there to do? Watch the...
Ben Shapiro's fully embracing the words-close-to-each-other mode of argument, but he's doing so without any indication that it's not actually a serious mode of argumentation. Let me break it down.
Now and then, responsible bloggers revisit old viewpoints and test them against a fresh stable of facts. This was an especially useful exercise, for example, after the war in Iraq.