Let's say you're a DA, and your office has an extensive record of disregarding constitutional requirements that relevant evidence be disclosed to defendants and their counsel. This leads to things like a man sitting on death row for 14 years because you don't turn over...
Month: March 2011
My WPR column this week is on grand strategy and muddling. In fact, there is no simple dichotomy opposing grand strategy and muddling through. The world is complex, and grand.
Lithwick with more on the case that, if the oral argument in any indication, will be the worst Roberts Court atrocity since the Chief's sneering, ahistorical arguments that the 14th.
Yep, the Tea Party is in many respects echoes Jacksonianism. And I certainly don't mean that as a compliment.
Interesting article on the politics of training Saudi Air Force pilots in Idaho. Long story short, politicians happy to take part in rancorous anti-Muslim diatribes on the "Ground Zero Mosque".
Assume you're a coach of a basketball team that features a great offensive player who is awful on defense -- an undersized point guard who is a brilliant play maker.
Depressingly, it looks as if Kennedy will vote to strike down the Arizona campaign finance law. Should he vote the way he seemed to be leaning at oral argument, a case worth pondering is Rust v. Sullivan. In that case, the Supreme Court upheld the...
I'm sitting in the Star Alliance lounge in Terminal 1, awaiting the beginning of my LHR-SFO-PDX journey, having been awake since 0400 (to catch the 4.5 hour bus journey from.
Dan Drezner thinks the problem is Obama's PR team. But Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch provided a different explanation yesterday for why Obama is not getting more credit, having.
Since I've been paged, and since it's being discussed in the comments, and since some people are thick enough to believe Cashill possesses "evidence" that requires "ironiz[ing] away," I believe it's time to reconvene the standards committee and remind people—via embarrassment—what the source of their...
As he explores the prospects for turning all of America into his own personal reality TV show, the Donald has gone full birther. The GOP establishment now has a real.
Foreign Affairs has published a longer version of my original remarks about the so-called "Lady Hawks" who supposedly "ball-busted" our presumably lily-livered president into a war ostensibly "not of his.