Saturday, July 26, 2014

Salon: Why law school's love affair with economics is terrible for the American legal system

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July 26th, 2014
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Why law school's love affair with economics is terrible for the American legal system

Law schools are putting more and more emphasis on a cash-crazed free market ideology. Here's what's at stake

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Strange bedfellows: Putin, the Chomskyite left and the ghosts of the Cold War

So-called radicals who side with the Russian despot on Ukraine are stuck in a poisoned Cold War narrative

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I was raised to think the country was ours by divine right. But this horror has challenged even my deepest beliefs

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How the Tea Party reads history: Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee and the new battle of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence

America had two foundings, one in 1776 and one in 1789. Today's right is still fighting the same battles

Tea Party Patriots' Exempt America from Obamacare rally, on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sept. 10, 2013.

Tea Party's self-defeating hate: Why toxic resentment hurts their bottom line

When the far right scapegoats immigrants, it makes inequality worse -- by empowering the real villains. Here's how

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Paul Ryan's "blame the victim" disease: How he epitomizes a horrible new consensus

Much like coverage of domestic violence or bombs in Gaza, Paul Ryan's poverty plan has a very disturbing hallmark

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The Grand Budapest Hotel is actually a department store in Germany — and it's about to get grander

A German entrepreneur aims to revitalize a moribund town by renovating an Art Nouveau icon

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5 celebrities who should actually have lifestyle websites

Blake Lively and Gwyneth Paltrow are boring. So someone should convince these stars to make lifestyle sites instead

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From Pizza Dog to Vincent Van Goat, the best comic book pets

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Why we should definitely beta-test marriages

Plenty of millennials do want to get married -- they just want to do it a little differently

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Stephen A. Smith is "annoyed" people "misconstrued" his comments about domestic violence

The ESPN host tries to clarify in a long stream of tweets

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Leading civil rights groups just sold out on net neutrality

The who's who of the civil rights community claims regulators would somehow "harm communities of color." Here's why

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Ted Nugent's "history of racist and hate-filled remarks" has finally caught up with him

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Broken Bells: The songs on our album came from weird places

The indie rock duo talks their second album, "After the Disco," and the dark image it paints of the future VIDEO

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Too big to fail banks want to make amends with poor people

Bank of America and others claim they want to offer poor people low-cost banking services. Don't hold your breath

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Google's next plan: Collect medical data to create a detailed map of a healthy human being

The project is known as Baseline Study stands at the junction of privacy and medical discovery

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The pill might change the way women perceive other women

And so can natural hormone changes that happen all the time. This is no reason to hate on birth control

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Why the Nickelodeon star who declared "I'm not a role model!" is missing the point of Nickelodeon

22-year-old Jennette McCurdy is tired of the "bubblegum industry"--but that's exactly what she signed up for

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