Month: May 2014
I have a piece up at the Prospect about yesterday's modestly encouraging Eighth Amendment case: The fact that someone as clearly mentally impaired as Hall had his death sentence upheld.
In my last post I touched briefly on use of the phrase "the friend zone." Here's where I hate the term: Saying that women have put you in the friend.
The New York Post is a disgrace, in case you forgot.
Some Tuesday links re: the horrific California shootings... Ophelia Benson has some interesting thoughts on reaction to the reaction to the shootings here and here and here. Amanda Marcotte talks.
The long-term unemployed are doomed to poverty by Republicans who will not pass any bill extending unemployment benefits. This sort of Republican governance advances their program to recreate New Gilded.
You mean ending prohibition doesn't lead to massive spikes in crime and other conservative horror stories of what happens when you end the war on drugs? Wow, who could have.
Thank you John Roberts and Republican statehouses: The failure of some states to expand Medicaid is leaving a quarter-million veterans without health insurance. Many assume that all of the nation's.
is the name of an important new book on a topic the author, Joe Carens, played a major role in bringing to prominence in political theory. His 1987 article begins.