In discussing Hyatt Hotels heir Penny Pritzker's support of Obama while UNITE-HERE has called for a boycott because of the terrible way the chain treats its housekeepers, it's worth pointing out Pritzker's other recent activities--attacking teacher unions. Pritzker has been right there with Rahm Emanuel...
Month: July 2012
Ancient graffiti more or less proves that humor hasn't changed much in thousands of years. Now we just have to discover the Roman Jerry Seinfeld.
One issue for liberals going forward is that progressive positions on civil liberties and civil rights generally lack a popular constituency. (The exception -- despite the fact that centrist.
More than a week ago I pointed out that the reported debt numbers for Rutgers-Camden law graduates didn't appear to make any sense. Within a few hours, with the help of internet crowd-sourcing, it became clear what had happened: Rutgers-Camden was reporting only the law...
Nick Sarantakes of the Naval War College and I talked Olympic politics on the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements. Here we talk about the difference that a Cold War makes:
Evidently, the recently deceased Sherman Hemsley cut an album with Jon Anderson of Yes. Although this makes little sense on multiple levels, there are many accounts that state it to.
Given the nature of American politics in the post-Citizens United era, it's hard to blame Obama for going all out for fundraising, especially since Romney is toasting him in the money department. On the other hand, it hardly inspires my confidence in a Democratic president...
Bernstein on filibuster gamesmanship: A broader point: if Democrats believe that Republicans will inevitably turn the Senate into a majority party rules institution as soon as they get the majority,.
People interested in the academic paper version of my law school critique can download it from SSRN. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have been engaged for the lead roles in.
What's the most important job in America? I don't know about you, but I'd say Protecting Our Freedoms is right up there. So it's only natural that when the federal government hires somebody to run any aspect of our national security apparatus, it does the...
Good posts by Abby Rapoport about the vote suppression in Pennsylvania as well as the gaps in the Voting Rights Act that will prevent the DOJ from stopping vote suppression.
Semi-serious question: If you assigned a student the task of writing an 800-word essay on the theme of what relevance America's experience in Iraq has for United States foreign policy.