Shorter House Republican Conference: "To the pinkos at the South Carolina statehouse, we say treason in defense of slavery today, treason in defense of slavery tomorrow, treason in defense of slavery forever!" Leave it to the GOP to always stay ahead of any attempt to...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The evil ACA creates more customers for big Pharma. Thanks, Obama! Who gets the most federally guaranteed student loan money? For profit chop shops, NYC/LA/DC area private schools, and a.
Shorter Marco Rubio: Obama's decision to end the Cuba embargo is awful. The lack of political freedoms in Cuba is proof positive of its immense value. Give this to Homer.
Breyer and Ginsburg's dissent in Glossip doesn't indicate that the current Supreme Court will rule the death penalty unconstitutional. But it does indicate that a future Supreme Court with a Democratic median vote might: It is thus vanishingly unlikely that this court will hold the...
Ed Kilgore has a smart intervention on the question of the Jacksonian tradition in the Democratic Party. Let us acknowledge the one major progressive achievement of Jackson's presidency -- staring.
How many bad analogies and metaphors and cliches can be crammed into a blog post? Can we learn something from bad arguments about the Supreme Court? Let's find out! I.
The payoffs, backscratching, and cover-ups that allow a famous serial rapist to get away with it. I've mentioned this before, but the fact that a major, extensively promoted biography of Cosby could be published in 2014 that ignored the history of women accusing him of...
Some #realtalk from Thomas Piketty: But Piketty, who penned the blockbuster 2013 book on income inequality Capital in the Twenty-First Century, slammed conservatives who favor the economic austerity measures Germany.
It's not exactly news that Sean Wilentz's punditry during the 2008 primaries was an embarrassment. But, via Chait, I somehow missed this definitive example: Under those pressures, the Barack Obama.
The Man Who Just Couldn't Be Right About Anything.
In a landslide. I don't claim expertise, but I'm inclined to defer to this actual expert and see this as the least terrible outcome. As Krugman acknowledges, there's reason to.
In some cases -- Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain most obviously in the last cycle -- no-hope presidential candidates are essentially running a grift, trying to build their personal brands.