* "Justice Hillary Clinton?" Next up in this traffic-whoring Daily Beast series: "Supreme Court Justice Palin?" [Daily Beast] * Faegre & Benson partner Robert Matthews and his brother died in a small plane crash over the weekend. Matthews had a mid-air collision while piloting a Cirrus SR20 plane, ...

Career Democrats (not just "outsider" liberal critics) are beginning to criticize President Obama's senior staff. The Hill, for example, reports that liberal and moderate Democrats in Congress blame Rahm Emanuel for the Obama administration's poor performance on healthcare reform.Although both sides ...

So suggests John Avalon, in a Daily Beast column “The Secret History of the Birthers.” He traces birtherism to a Texas woman named Linda Starr, who was a Hillary Clinton delegate to the 2008 Texas state Democratic Convention. Avalon writes that Starr “was also cited as a key source for CBS’ discredi ...

This blog has covered the mortgage meltdown (for instance, among many posts, here, here, and here). We have discussed the regulatory failures of the Clinton and Bush II Administrations, under which agencies permitted (and encouraged) people of relatively little means...

Every once in a while, I get an email accusing me of costing Americans their jobs and going on and on about how China is terrible and anyone who has anything to do with China is terrible, presumably including me. I usually respond by talking about how China is a reality and how countries shou ...

Every once in a while, I get an email accusing me of costing Americans their jobs and going on and on about how China is terrible and anyone who has anything to do with China is terrible, presumably including me. I usually respond by talking about how China is a reality and how countries shou ...

At , Doug Kendall has , headlined "Fill the Bench Now: Now is the time for Obama to move on judicial nominations," which take President Obama to task for the slow pace of his judicial nominations. Here are excerpts: Slate this new commentary By February 2002, President George W. Bus ...

Senator Franken (D-MN), not known even in his short time in the Senate for his ability to play well with others, may have laid bare the lack of ability to pass legislation by the White House, which they mask as “we’ll let Congress decide.” (Senator Obama’s legislative achiev ...

I had the opportunity to present Treasury Inc.: How the Bailout Reshapes Corporate Theory and Practice at the American Association of Law Schools conference session on Business Associations in January.  It was an engaging experience that I found particularly fun as I am from Louisiana and used to li ...

In the wake of China’s hacking attacks against Google, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently made a speech condemning “countries or individuals that engage in cyber attacks.” In response, China accused the United States of hypocrisy with respect to this tough talk, claiming that the U.S. enga ...