University of Phoenix admissions exec literally orders somebody killed.
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Any critique of the set of powerful social institutions that work together to create contemporary American legal education must be as it were political all the way down. (Few things.
I'm so old I remember when Josh Trevino was considered some sort of intellectual. But don't kid yourself, this 53% thing will be the hottest thing since the Victory Caucus..
Look. Walter Russell Mead is correct to note that Columbus Day, at its origins, owes almost nothing to Christopher Columbus himself (though I'm modestly surprised that Mead didn't use the occasion to show us how Columbus Day has everything to do with Al Gore being...
I will point out that this take on the extremely important Netflix issue is correct. It's pretty clear why Netflix customers were upset and puzzled about how the move even.
Read of the day is John Sullivan's piece on African-Americans leaving northern cities and moving to southern suburbs, which might sound like a return to southern roots except with middle-class.
I'll highlight the key word in the key grafs in Politico's latest drooling about a mythical proactive third party candidacy: Despite their seemingly left-wing orientation, the Occupy Wall Street protestors have explicitly avoided any partisan reference. They blame both parties for what many protestors call...
Krugman on OWS: What’s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is. They’re not John.
Ezra Klein's article on the stimulus and the devastated economy of 2009 is very much worth reading in its entirety. This is a key takeaway: But it is hard to.
Edward Copeland: I don’t know what to say about Tracy. Katharine Hepburn once compared him to a potato (she meant it as a compliment), and that’s pretty apt. He’s solid and meaty. He’s there. But he’s not very exciting. There’s a case to be made...
A good question from Charlie Savage's excellent account of the Awlaki killing: The memorandum is said to declare that in the case of a citizen, it is legally required to.
Via Mother Jones is this superb site called Vulgar Army highlighting the use of the octopus in history to illustrate the evil power of corporations or other sites of power..