NALP has released preliminary employment statistics for the class of 2011 as of nine months after graduation. They are, unsurprisingly, terrible. 12% of 2011 graduates were completely unemployed in February 2012, and another three per cent had re-enrolled in further graduate study, which can be...
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Shorter Matt Stoller: This data showing that the number of strikes has been in severe decline since the early 70s shows that Barack Obama should have been primaried in 2012. .
Several readers recommended this Doug Henwood piece, which is sort of a leftier-than-thou version of Ezra Klein's fatalism, arguing that organized labor should cede the field of electoral politics. Henwood.
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Twilight Greenaway's piece entitled, "The Food Movement's Final Frontier: Taking Care of Workers," is a bit of a misnomer, since the food movement has a lot of frontiers to deal.
If you ever wanted to read FBI documents on training against so-called "ecoterrorism," now is your chance. This stuff is pretty disturbing since we see an ever expanding definition of.
I think this calls for a nice, quick lawsuit.
The great guitarist for Miles Davis' mid-70s bands has passed. Very sad. [SL]: A backhanded tribute to a great innovator: "Howlin' Wolf looked at me and he said 'Why don't.
What would a Netroots Nation convention be without a member of LGM representing it? Actually, it'd be like all the others because LGM hasn't ever had someone there before, I.
As with the previous Mad Men post, I'll begin here with the title ("Commissions and Fees") as it structures the underlying irony of the entire episode. As Lane Pryce explains to the partners early in the episode, the difference between commissions and fees boils down to...
This time, it's Barbara Jones, a Clinton appointee to the District Court. It's based on a broader theory than last week's 1CA ruling, and hence is less likely to stand.
I disagree with the bottom line of Ezra Klein's analysis of the Wisconsin recall, but for somewhat different reasons than Erik and some other analysts I admire have expressed. I.