Under existing practices, it takes four votes for the Supreme Court to grant cert, but five to issue a stay. For Charles Warner, this procedural issue turned out to be highly significant: he was executed under a death penalty protocol whose constitutionality the Supreme Court...
Month: January 2015
This, by LGM alumna Charli Carpenter, is very well done: Tragically, Alex and I won't make the panel because of unforeseen new commitments. Nevertheless, if you're at the ISA conference.
Of course it could pay $15 an hour. It just prefers its workers living in poverty. At least it provides helpful advice on how to live on the minimum wage..
There hasn't exactly been a dearth of terrible argumentation today, but here's one more example for the case files - and it's a doozy. According to Noam Scheiber, author of The Escape Artists, Bill DeBlasio has erred: instead of transcending the Obama coalition, Mr. de...
If I wrote an op-ed that said my ideology created policy preferences that might lead to the execution of the rich but, hey, we have to make trade-offs, I would.
So Greece had an election today, and the results are pretty impressive: Most exit polls are looking like Syriza will have an absolute majority, which is pretty damn rare in Greek.
With the Trans-Pacific Partnership likely headed our way in the next few months, journalists and pundits are already weighing in. There are some smart takes. Not surprisingly, one of those comes from Lydia DePillis. Examining an Ohio fire truck company that sells to China, she...
Unlike Noam Scheiber, I don't have a problem with Bill DeBlasio emphasizing police violence against people of color. Scheiber would rather see DeBlasio become an economic populist and unite the.
It's not always easy to get fresh basil if you don't live in the right area, but oddly enough you can order it from Amazon. There are two problems with.
This is a guest post by Paul Adler, lecturer at the Harvard History and Literature program. He received his PhD in history from Georgetown University in 2014. Paul's dissertation, Planetary Citizens: U.S. NGOs and the Politics of International Development in the Late Twentieth Century examines...
Like most of you, I spend my Saturday nights watching silent films. Title cards like this one from Children of Eve are one reason. It's almost as if directors from.
I'm a little torn on this: In an attempt to keep a dialogue going surrounding the sweatshop conditions in which so many mass-produced articles of clothing are made, Norwegian publication.