Below is an exhaustive list of the good arguments for not having streaming of Supreme Court oral arguments available in real time: Coincidentally, this is also an exhaustive list of the good arguments for not televising Supreme Court oral arguments. (Note: "But Anontin Scalia might...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Mark Joseph Stern is optimistic about the implications of last week's ruling in Rodriguez v. U.S.: The real wild card here is Chief Justice John Roberts, who seemed so unperturbed.
Crucial background: Those cases detail a frightful human toll. Officers have battered dozens of residents who suffered broken bones — jaws, noses, arms, legs, ankles — head trauma, organ failure,.
Choire Sicha's review of Jon Ronson is a beautiful piece of writing. Particularly crucial: Public shamings are often described in this book in terms of physical violence. Tweeters are “a pitchfork mob,” according to Michael Moynihan, who unmasked Lehrer; according to Ronson, they are both...
World-class photoshopping by New York Hmm, I wonder to which pundit Paul Krugman might be referring to and the end of his wonderful column on how wrong critics of the.
We're getting close to the time of year when Matt Miller and Tom Friedman will start writing a column every couple of weeks arguing that there needs to be a.
Shorter Republicans 2010-2014: "The ACA will not reduce the number of people without health insurance. Indeed, it might make this problem we don't consider a problem worse." Shorter Republicans 2015: "Everyone knew that the ACA would result in a huge drop in the number of...
Excellent points from Michael Cohen about the Wikileaks posting of private data from Sony Pictures: What a victory for transparency that these critically important stories are now in the public.
There is no bad way of eliminating the Canucks, of course, but I was especially happy to see this guy get the game winner. In addition to the personal tragedy,.
Many great points from Pollitt here. Two points are particularly worthy of emphasis. First, the extent to which SSM meshes better with traditionalist conceptions of the family: Marriage equality is about love, romance, commitment, settling down, starting a family. People love love! But marriage equality...
A couple of people on Twitter thought when they read the description that my article about Kansas would be about Louisiana. And, certainly, Republican governance has been a disaster in.
So you've wrecked your state with a disastrous experiment in crackpot supply-side economics. What are you going to do now? Why, target the poor, women, and gays and lesbians with.