Like Yglesias, I pretty much believe that being evicted from Zuccotti Park is about the best thing that could happen to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Let's face it, they had not succeeded in the last couple of weeks in retaining the media's attention. The...
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Upwards of 10 new alleged Sandusky victims have emerged. The judge who inexplicably let an alleged violent criminal facing more than 200 years go on $100,000 in unsecured bail worked.
See Cohen, Beyerstein, Dell'Antonia, and Marcotte.
As Paul mentioned, as expected the Supreme Court will be hearing the case. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that the Court will be having a longer-than-usual argument about the severability issue alone. I think this should make clear that there is a very real...
The great James McMurtry offers his song "We Can't Make It Here" as a free download in support of the Occupy movement. Says McMurtry: We quit playing "We Can't Make.
Pretty good Times piece on the rapidly growing Latino populations in the Great Plains. Of course, a lot of the local whites are outraged. On the other hand, their towns.
Anthony Kennedy gets to decide if and how the nation's health care system will start to be reformed, which makes all kinds of sense because of the Framers. Or something.
Oh, fer Chrissakes -- Bobo gives us the Bill Donohue explanation for the Penn State sex scandals. That is, he really seems to think that "people" in general seem to.
Rather than comment, I thought I'd add my take to Erik's post below. Essentially, I don't think it's possible to make generalizations like "it's a terrible idea to get a.
Larry Cebula offers an argument we hear frequently: that no one should go on for a Ph.D. because there aren't jobs. Cebula covers the basic points: delayed income earnings that will never pay off, massive debt, living in horrible parts of the country, etc. It's...
I really hope this class-action lawsuit filed by former unpaid interns over the exploitative nature of their internships at Fox Searchlight Pictures succeeds. The rise of unpaid internships has been.
It's always been my position that the Times needs to run more articles explaining to us the hard lives of the Manhattan rich. Now it turns out they have to.