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The wheels of justice

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On June 21, 2019
Good Radley Balko thread on how innocent people plead out to crimes they didn't commit when the alternative is sitting around in jail for months at a time and losing your job/apartment etc. in the process: This is a thread about time and the criminal...
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The radicals

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On June 18, 2019
Eric Levitz makes an important point here: Some Democratic presidential candidates say that America’s economic system is badly broken and in need of sweeping, structural change. Others say that the existing order is fundamentally sound, even if it could use a few modest renovations. The former are widely portrayed as...
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The $400,000 law school

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On June 14, 2019
Columbia's law school has passed a fiscal milestone: for the first time, its estimated cost of attendance for a nine-month academic year will be in six figures ($101,345 to be exact). Some notes: Where do these costs come from? Tuition and mandatory fees make up...

The Merit Myth

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On June 7, 2019

Jeffrey Goldberg's claim that the ability to write 10,000-word cover stories -- we can imply charitably that he means excellent 10,000-word cover stories -- is rare among American journalists, and.

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