When I heard that Jed Rakoff had rejected the deal between Citigroup and the SEC, my initial reaction was like Black and Wheeler's -- I'd be happy to see one of the banks that destroyed the world taken to trail rather than given a wrist-slap. And...
Shorter Bobo: Spain and Italy spent way too much time at the Applebee's salad bar. Seriously, I went to Spain and couldn't find a single place that charged more than.
Today we celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike. The Oakland general strike came out of the massive changes to the Bay Area during World War II. Hundreds.
Newt clarifies his comments from last week that poor students should replace janitors in schools. They shouldn't do all the work. Just jobs like cleaning the bathrooms. And doesn't this make sense? In the new Gilded Age, the poor need to learn to serve their masters,...
Republicans aren't even trying to hide their voter suppression agenda. If it wasn't evil, I'd say it was refreshing that at least they aren't lying anymore.
Scott Walker using prison labor to decorate the Christmas tree (and in this administration, it ain't no holiday tree like here in Rhode Island) in the Wisconsin state capitol building..
Jon Chait argues once again that anyone who sees generating massive amounts of revenue from "student"-athletes while denying them most of the benefits as exploitative must hate college sports. The bulk of his defense of the NCAA cartel relies on red herrings he's used before. I'm...
Law schools have become addicted to federal educational loan money. Under current law, schools can charge whatever they want for tuition, and the federal government will loan 100% of that.
OK, I'm pretty much convinced that Pawlenty was hopeless no matter what.
Apparently, Siri systematically excludes abortion clinics from searches. As Stephen Colbert says, this makes it "like Laura Ingraham, but less robotic."
Given that some recent posts have dealt with the contrast between central and local control over violence, this from Jason Sorens is interesting: In 1927, local revenue decentralization (LRD) still.
This story has received very little coverage, but today was nearly the day the National Labor Relations Board, for all intents and purposes, died. The NLRB is supposed to have.