Actual first graph of a Reuters story featured in today's edition of The Paper of Record: NEW YORK — When Josh McFarland graduated from Stanford he owed $40,000 in student loans and couldn't fathom a way he'd ever pay it off and have a future...
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The Ashes As it's my role here to spearhead LGM's cornering the "progressive blogosphere market on cricket commentary" (as per our FAQ), my absence is letting the team down. I.
May your Saturday night be like Harold Lloyd standing on his head, risking his life for a stunt.
Not that you needed another reason to oppose Lawrence Summers' potential appointment to Chairman of the Federal Reserve, but Lanny Davis endorsing Summers gives you one anyway.
I hear from time to time from prospective law students who tell me they would like to practice something called "international law." It's difficult to advise them, because I've always.
Jennifer Schuessler has a terrific article on the Colin McGinn case, putting it into the context of gender discrimination in the field more broadly. First, more detail on what McGinn.
The latest from our benevolent local overlords: The first video was graphic enough. Two women, as shown in a Texas state trooper’s dash cam recording, are probed in their vaginas and rectums by a glove-wearing female officer after a routine traffic stop near Dallas. A...
On August 3, 1913, the Wheatland Riot took place in California, leading to four deaths, including two workers and two law enforcement agents. A burst of violence caused by the.
Since the hippie post has so many people up in arms (and I'd like to mention that myself and an occasional LGM commenter and unionist who shall remain anonymous managed.
How did I miss this? I apologize for this being ancient news in blogiverse terms, but I just found it really amusing. So apparently there's a Facebook page for people who are both secularists and motorcycle enthusiasts, and for whatever reason one of the group's...
Hamiton Nolan continues his excellent labor reporting at Gawker by following up his Wal-Mart stories piece with Amazon stories, collecting stories of what it is like to work at the.
Tim Noah on the women like Christina Romer, Brooksley Born, and Elizabeth Warren who wouldn't have the privilege of being made an official candidate the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve.