A mortgage boycott in China is “still multiplying” and threatens to “become much more widespread,” according to analysts who say the homeowner protest is already affecting 235 […]
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Netflix’s Marriage or Mortgage Dances Around the Dark Reality of Americans’ Finances
In the first episode of the new Netflix reality series Marriage or Mortgage, engaged couple Liz and Evan are torn about their future. The last of their […]
The Law: Adamant Against Ads
RICHARD SANDERS, ATTORNEY, proclaimed the headline of a recent quarter-page advertisement in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. At the bottom of the copy was a clip-out coupon […]
How Your Texts Can Be Used As Evidence
Many people assume text messages are private, but that’s not necessarily the case—as recent momentous events have shown. Text messages have played a pivotal role […]
The Law: The Sausage Factories
Every high school civics student is taught that “in all criminal prosecutions,” the Sixth Amendment guarantees defendants “assistance of counsel.” It was not until 1963, […]
The Law: Mr. Smith Comes to the A.B.A
Moving through the crowd, the white-haired, chunky, effervescent lawyer works as hard as a campaign politician. A crunching squeeze of the arm for one man, […]
The Law: At 100, the Bar Confronts Reform
Since the turn of the century, the legal profession has claimed the privilege of regulating its own affairs—its ethics and finances and public services. Today […]
The Law: Cut-Rate Counsel
Many of the well-heeled lawyers who lounged in the sun and relaxed in posh hotel bars last month at the American Bar Association’s annual convention […]
Law: Pay Now, Sue Later
When a 31-year-old manufacturing-company executive moved out of his rented home in Oregon, the landlady kept $125 of his $325 security deposit. That sort of […]
Insurance: Politics at Fault
It might seem impossible for anyone to devise an auto-insurance plan more fouled up than the one now actually in effect in the U.S. Under […]