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Showing posts with label wealth gap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wealth gap. Show all posts
Monday, September 29, 2025

Protestors burn transit stations in Madagascar capital; is American frustration so different?

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Protests over lack of water and electricity turned violent late last week in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, and the government res...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Bar comprises haves, have nots; ABA chooses haves

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Yesterday I submitted the following open letter to the leadership of the International Law Section ( ILS ) of the American Bar Association (...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Americans can't find doctors in sick system, but docs whine too loudly on debt, ignore excessive earnings

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In the current AARP Bulletin  ( pay wall , Apple News ), New York Dr. Howard Zucker capably explains why Americans are being squeezed by a ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Lawyers be a-ballin'?

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Canadian lawyers protest legal aid de-funding in 2014 ( Sally T. Buck via Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ). My wife was a legal services attorney ...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Oops. We accidentally linked healthcare to your job.

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mohamed_hassan (pixabay.com) I stand with the rest of the world in awestruck horror of America's stubborn insistence that access to heal...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

'Miss Juneteenth' speaks both to problems of our times and to timeless problems

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Thanks to the Duke (University) Screen/Society , yesterday, I virtually attended a screening and discussion of the 2020 film from Vertical E...
Monday, March 9, 2020

Poor development choices may bolster quality-of-life disparity on Tanzania's Msasani Peninsula

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 Coco Beach, Msasani Peninsula, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. All photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . The short length of Coco Beach is t...
Friday, May 3, 2019

SCOTUS, climate change, drug addiction, immigration highlight law and policy issues at UMass colloquium

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Today at the Fifth UMass Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Colloquium in Boston, scholars talked about a range of intriguing work, from po...