The banks knew some of the "AAA" investments they were selling were crap, the rating agencies knew they were crap, and after an enormous amount of human misery many of the people actually involved made tons of money and it's not clear that anything has changed.
How does one go about finding a reputable moving company? Because I feel like a freshmen trying to do academic research for the first time: I don't know what reviews.
Tim Noah is making sense: Unfortunately, Pauley’s decision didn’t address the biggest moral objection to unpaid internships: they’re starkly inegalitarian. Wealthier kids are in a much better position to work.
It's fairly unlikely that I'll read George Packer's new book, The Unwinding of America. But I did read this excerpt, presumably from the introduction. Packer bemoans the decline of the fabric that held American society together, leading to today's plutocracy, individual aggrandizement, and dysfunctional government. In...
Due to some foreseen circumstances -- my quarter just ended -- it took a little longer than usual to produce this podcast. But produced it has been! Enjoy! You can.
Despite the ongoing delay in bringing us "Let's Destroy the Great Society Day," there was, alas, a major Supreme Court decision yesterday. Scalia's majority opinion in American Express v. Italian.
Some thoughts at the Diplomat on BMD: The nub of genuine utility is this; ballistic missile defense can help protect the forward military installations of a state from attack by hyper-accurate ballistic missiles designed to destroy and disrupt military capability. Soviet plans to strike Western European airbases...
I've talked about this issue before a couple of times, so I'm really glad to see the New York Times report on the awful environmental impact of unregulated marijuana production.
On June 21, 1877, ten alleged members of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society blamed for labor radicalism in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania, were executed. The Molly Maguires.
Last year, we quite remarkably learned that it was possible to be too dumb to win the Republican nomination for president. And now, apparently a bill can be too evil to pass the Republican House: Partisan accusations of broken promises erupted Thursday as a House five-year...
Major bummer that the Worldport at JFK is going to be demolished. I suppose it was pretty well inevitable given the space considerations at the airport, but it's a pretty.
I long ago lost much interest in the NBA, but seventh games are always interesting, and this does seem to represent a clash of the two iconic teams of the.