Serwer is definitive: To the extent that "mass bloodshed" was necessary, it was because the Confederates refused to hew to the potential outcomes produced by democratic institutions, which is precisely what the editors at Redstate are threatening. The abolitionists would have been perfectly happy to...
Author: Scott Lemieux
I would say that I'm responding to Darleen Click's arguments about this post, except that she doesn't actually have any arguments. Does she propose a different way of restricting post-viability.
Two good games today, and a good time to reiterate that people who think that playoff football needs to be played in sterile environments in Southern suburbs are nuts. Packers.
I can't really claim vindication over having predicted that the Angels' run as rulers of the AL West would end in 2010, given that I had been erroneously predicting it for years before it happened. So I was reluctant to say that it wasn't an...
Out. Not shocking in the grand scheme of things, I suppose. He provided definitive proof that liberal cable news could sell, an important accomplishment. One of his last stands didn't.
Is Lanny "I'd write op-eds calling Robert Mugabe a great democratic leader for 50 bucks" Davis the Joe Lieberman of political consultants, or is Joe Lieberman the Lanny Davis of.
Various winger blogs -- including Time's 2004 Blog of the Year -- attack Chris Christie for appointing a Muslim to the state courts. I wish this was satire.
I have some thoughts inspired by Jon Cohn's article about constitutional challenges to the ACA. The short version is that I doubt that even a scenario where the Supreme Court.
This year's Blog For Choice question: Given the anti-choice gains in the states and Congress, are you concerned about choice in 2011? The answer, of course, is "absolutely." The practical.
Greg Mankiw.
Shorter Daily Tucker: By encouraging people to exercise, Michelle Obama is effectively a murderer. Among other things, Obama seems unaware that while walking and running are deadly activities, nobody has.
In response to the indictment of Kermit Gosnell, William Saletan advocates for...regulations he's always advocated. What's unclear is how these regulations are relevant to the Gosnell case specifically. It's not.