The Nobel-Prize award winning author of, among many others, The Golden Notebook has passed away at age 94. R.I.P.
Author: Scott Lemieux
Apparently former National Blowjob Inquisitor Ken Starr has finally found an occasion for mercy. I know Starr doesn't think that students should have First Amendment rights either, but this is.
Shorter John Yoo: I'm appalled by the executive overreach of Obama's new ACA regulations. Plainly, Obama should have obtained these ends by arbitrarily detaining and torturing health insurance executives.
You may recall that Ted Kennedy engaged in the least civil act in the known history of human discourse by accurately describing Robert Bork's history of publicly stated views. One of those views was his argument that the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional because it...
Exactly the level of intellectual integrity I would expect from Fix the Debt!
This particularly unnecessary subsidy to plutocrats will be largely coming directly from the county's taxpayers. (As a commenter notes, the John Malone, the majority owner of the company that owns.
Earlier this week, the Republican minority in the Senate blocked the nomination of Nina Pillard. The stated reasons included her participation in the litigation of some cases that ultimately ended up in the Supreme Court. And, in fairness, her positions were so radical that they...
For some reason, Bill Clinton has decided to play into the hands of the bad guys on the ACA: In the midst of the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care.
Evidently, the Women’s Health Protection Act isn't going to pass anytime soon. But I agree that it's another welcome sign that Democrats have decided to stop being timorous on reproductive.
Rick Perlstein's piece about how the Tea Party is just the latest in a long series of similar reactionary insurgencies is outstanding. The follow-up also makes a crucial point: The fact of the matter is that the relationship between business and the modern right has...
Bryan Lowder's defense of Richard Cohen is...highly unpersuasive. Coates addresses the strange "context" defense: The problem here isn't that we think Richard Cohen gags at the sight of an interracial.
The publisher of the Post singled out Richard Cohen's column today as "brilliant." Of course she did! And it's not just that Cohen argued that it's not racist to be.