The first last step was touching the moon. As the Republican primaries approach their de facto end in Florida, Newt is making a lot of noises about staying in to the end, and entertainingly is now resorting to the last refuge of pundits who want...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Krugman on austerity in the UK, a terrible idea that has worked out horribly in practice: How could the economy thrive when unemployment was already high, and government policies were.
Fred Hiatt brings us a strong opening bid: It also could have been possible that Witt wanted to preempt the inevitable investigation and humiliation. Whether the charge of “sexual assault,”.
There are two types of criticism I find particularly irritating. On the one hand -- this was particularly prevalent in Seattle alt-weeklies when I was a grad student -- you have criticism that isn't really about the music/movie purportedly being discussed but about what the...
Powerful and important reporting from Elise Foley: On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of.
Evidently, Bijan's sophisticated empirical analysis in a dying thread merits front-page coverage. Although I certainly hope that in keeping with the tenets of Paul-curiosity reproductive freedom and other such trivialities.
Let's just say that I'm not optimistic that Posnanski's Paterno book will be what it should be.
I love Jon Chait's Mitt Romney/Ace Rothstein analogy. The problem for the conservative base is that their competing suitors can't even rise to the level of a card shark, a.
Of course he was fully aware of and approved of the content of his racist newsletters: But people close to Paul’s operations said he was deeply involved in the company.
Cynthia Nixon's recent comments are very wise: Regarding her late-in-life sexual orientation switch, the “Sex and the City” star said: I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and...
Shorter Verbatim Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE): Contraception "is unrelated to the basic needs of health care."
I have some follow-up thoughts to the GPS surveillance decision handed down by the Supreme Court earlier this week. The first major takeaway from the case is that Sonia Sotomayor.