Alex Pareene is right: The no-fly list is a civil rights disaster by every conceivable standard. It is secret, it disproportionately affects Arab-Americans, it is error-prone, there is no due process or effective recourse for people placed on the list, and it constantly and relentlessly...
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Great news out of Colombia, where the government and the FARC have finally come to an agreement to call a cease fire in the 50-year civil war, a cease fire.
Steve King, everybody: King filed an amendment late Tuesday to an appropriations bill that would prevent money from being spent on any redesigns of the country’s currency. And he made.
Of course: Despite repeatedly insisting he would return to life as a private citizen after his failed bid for the presidency, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is expected to announce he's running for re-election on Wednesday, the Washington Post reported. Rubio had already begun informing key...
Whenever it's pointed out that there are dozens of ABA law schools that cost $200,000 or more to attend and have horrible employment outcomes for their graduates, the same by-now.
Big Media Scott is in the Los Angeles Times, discussing Donald Trump's "presidential campaign": As if Trump’s money problems weren’t bad enough, he’s also spending the little he has unwisely..
On June 22, 1896, mine owners in Leadville, Colorado agreed to lock out their unionized miners, presenting a united front against unionism. This action would spur one of the largest battles between unions and employers in the 1890s, one that typically would be ended by...
I know the law job market is horrible, but I always felt that going into water law in the West was a pretty much limitless market, given the brutal battles.
Do you care what Joe Lieberman thinks about the 2016 elections? No, of course not. But since he was interviewed about it and refused to endorse either Trump or Clinton,.
Judith Stein is one of the finest historians working today. Her book, Pivotal Decade, is a superb discussion of the 1970s and the economic shift away from manufacturing to financialization. Critical work. You should read it. Stein has a long interview with Jacobin that is...
If my Bernie bona fides have been established, I’d like to turn to the priority of defeating the Republican presidential candidate. Actually, “defeat” does not do justice to my hopes..
I've already mentioned the habit of seeing everything through an electoral frame. Bernie lost, Hillary won, Bernie's been insufficiently magnanimous, Bernie's followers are going to make a mess in Philadelphia,.