How much debt will people now applying to law school incur from attending the schools they're considering? Law school debt is a function of the relationship between, on the one hand, tuition and cost of living, and on the other, socioeconomic status, grants and scholarships, and...
Minnesota's gay and lesbian community responds to Amy Koch, the anti-marriage equality bigot who resigned her leadership position after engaging in a relationship with a staffer who was not her.
Yes: As we've been told for years, the devastating impact on the economy if Uncle Jim gets a wee principal reduction on his Riverside McMansion would last for decades, while.
Salmon and TBogg on our poor, beleaguered plutocrat class. Jim Sensenbrenner is displeased with Michelle Obama's "posterior," and believes this makes her a hypocrite based on well-known Scientific Knowledge that you can't have a healthy lifestyle if you weigh more than Kate Moss. In fairness, when...
Obama is with us, comrades! However farcical things get in American political discourse, I do take a small measure of satisfaction in the fact that Sarah Palin is too lazy.
Today's House Republicans: apparently jealous of the World's Worst Deliberative Body, they want some dysfunction of their own.
Jon Huntsman is making things up, claiming that EPA regulations to cut pollution from coal-fired plants, including the Clean Air Mercury Rule and Cross States Air Pollution Rule, will lead to blackouts this summer. Even power plant operators know this is a lie. But since Huntsman...
Who says bipartisanship is dead? Senators from both sides of the aisle can still come together to make the lives of children more dangerous. Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Jerry.
It would be easier to stomach the federal government intervening into the Greatest Scandal There Absolutely Ever Was if it was just empty posturing, but alas in addition we have.
Two bits about North Korea this morning. First, in my WPR column I argue that the transition will likely involve factional conflict in North Korea, and that it's worth reaching out to some of these factions: It is wrong to say that the U.S. can “wipe...
There's been a lot of interesting stuff written in the wake of Christopher Hitchens's passing, with a lot more uninteresting stuff summarized by this Neal Pollock satire. Since I agree.
The college football bowl system, a cabal controlling the sport, sure does function effectively. Take the Hawaii Bowl, played on Christmas Eve and this year featuring Nevada and Southern Mississippi:.