A federal judge ruled that the trustee charged with recovering assets lost in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme does not have standing to sue banks and other institutions on behalf of victims for failing to detect the fraud.
Eli Lake has a superb breakdown at the New Republic of how the Republican foreign policy consensus has collapsed, at least insofar as it is reflected among the party’s presidential candidates. The only thing you need to know is that everyone but Ron Paul is pro-Israel. Just kidding! Not that it isn’t true (Eli wisely […]
What made the 1964 Rochester race riot extraordinary was that it was so unexpected. “I lived in the city at the time, but my wife and I were in Paris on our honeymoon when the news broke,” recalled Paul Goldberg via email. “We had just had a conversation with someone we met on the trip […]
