The year-long mourning of Derek Jeter is going to be pretty much the most annoying thing ever. One thing to say at the outset is that by the standards writers have used to convict Jeff Bagwell and Mike Piazza, I have no idea what the...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Needless to say, Kansas's new bill authorizing both private and state discrimination against gays and lesbians is an utter disgrace: But even worse are the provisions that allow state employees.
A federal judge has struck down Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage. Her holding is that because marriage is a fundamental right, the ban must be subject to strict scrutiny, which.
In Paul's thread from yesterday, a commenter expresses a sentiment that I've encountered way too often among American liberals: I didn’t realize Thomas could actually speak. I thought Scalia just stuck his hand up Thomas’ ass and worked his mouth like a ventriloquist dummy. I've...
I assume current Comcast customers will have some thoughts about my new monopolistic overlords? UPDATE: the case against.
Tom Perkins edition.
Tanner Colby has a strange Slate piece arguing that affirmative action doesn't work. In fairness, he's not exactly saying that it doesn't work -- "millions of people do well under affirmative action" -- but rather that it's not "an answer to economic discrimination and structural...
Yes, wingnuts are still making the "how can there be global warming if there's snow today nyuk nyuk nyuk" arguments: If you needed proof that God has a wicked sense.
Sargent's analysis is exactly right: So House Republican leaders are bowing to the inevitable and are going to allow a vote on a clean debt limit hike. In a statement.
A handy guide to the second-greatest sport at the winter Olympics.
I have a piece noting that the "it's not that I'm a bigot, but I have to respect the desires of other bigots" argument has 1)always been used to justify.
Shorter Verbatim James Taranto: "If two drunk drivers are in a collision, one doesn't determine fault on the basis of demographic details such as each driver's sex. But when two.