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All The Hillaries

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On April 14, 2015
Is Hillary Clinton the horrible monster Doug Henwood describes who is terrible on many, many issues the left should care about? Is Hillary Clinton a corporate hack who will avoid economic populism like Zaid Jilani claims? Is Hillary Clinton a brilliant politician whose seemingly inevitably...

Hang ‘Em High

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On April 14, 2015

On this, the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, it's worth considering which Confederates should have been hanged. Understanding that the Union couldn't really execute all the high ranking Confederates, Gary Brecher.

Adjunctification

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It sucks to be a department chair and have to hire adjuncts in a situation you know and they know is exploitative. As a department chair at Columbia University, I am compelled to hire many people on a part-time basis, although they want and deserve...
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NFL Cheerleader Bill of Rights

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On April 13, 2015
It's about time. A bill by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez to give employee rights and benefits to professional sports cheerleaders passed its first committee in Sacramento this week. Gonzalez, a former high school and college cheerleader, said her bill “simply demands that any professional sports team...
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A Reasonable Response

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On April 12, 2015
It's hard to see how this goes bad: Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response to the killing of 148 people by Somali gunmen at a...

Express Lanes

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On April 12, 2015

No matter how many lanes of traffic governments build, they will never solve traffic problems because they incentivize more driving and more traffic, effectively subsidizing the problem they are meant.

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