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. ...
Author: Scott Lemieux
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.
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.
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."
The Senate may be making it more difficult to withdraw from Afghanistan, although of course the status quo also has substantial downsides. Who will win Iowa? I wonder if Paul.
Although it's sort of touching that they think governors and prosecutors will take scientific findings showing evidence to be unreliable into account if appellate courts can't. The other salient fact about the case is Kagan joining the majority.
The story of Emma Sullivan is, in its small way, inspiring. She stood her ground, Kansas's WATB-in-chief backed off, and her school administrators seemed to figure out in time that.
David Weigel and Kaili Joy Gray hove more on the excellent point Paul raised yesterday. Not only have a lot of Republicans and journalists conflated sexual harassment and consensual affairs.
I suppose Edward Jay Epstien's is at least more creative than Naomi Wolf's, but it's no more convincing. ...see also Irin Carmon.
Andrew Martin has a fascinating article about how things work in a winger-dominated DA's office in Illinois. First, people are convicted based almost entirely on not-very-plausible confessions extracted from.
The threat of his becoming President of the United States has passed, but Texans (including the many who didn't vote for him) remain stuck with him.