Even leaving aside the ethical issues, rarely has a book proposal without "Camille Paglia" in the author's slot seemed so unreadable: Jonah Lehrer, the disgraced writer who resigned from The New Yorker after he was discovered plagiarizing and fabricating material, has sold a book to...
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Shorter John Yoo: No, I still can't till any difference between wiretapping in defiance of a statute and wiretapping with the authorization of a statute, because the Constitution clearly states.
The Verizon order was problematic, but the PRISM program revealed by the WaPo yesterday seems much worse than that. A key lesson, I argue, is that as often happens the.
I have a more detailed reaction here. Obviously, this doesn't pose the same as the warrantless wiretapping the Bush administration engaged in after 9/11 -- following statutes rather than violating them is a distinction of actual significance! But this is very different than saying that...
The 2nd Circuit has ordered the Obama administration to do what is should have done on its own: make (most forms of) emergency contraception immediately available over-the-counter to all women.
Congress gave the discretion, and the Obama administration took it: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's.
You will be shocked to discover that life-ruining prosecutions under drug laws are not evenly distributed by race or class.
Jonah Keri's piece on Biogenesis is terrific, and answers a lot of the questions I had. The first question was whether MLB could pursue the punishment of players who don't.
It's real, and it matters. I also note that Sarah Palin's theory of free speech (i.e. "you have an inalienable right never to be criticized") is no more attractive coming.
Akhil Reed Amar and Neal Katyal have a (less unequivocal than the title implies) defense of the Court's DNA testing opinion yesterday, which of course is worth reading. It does, alas, have an unfortunate opening hook: SOMETHING astonishing happened Monday: Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court’s...
Jesus Christ, what a pathetic operation Tucker Carlson is running. ...Emma Roller has more.
When a Supreme Court majority wants to reach an outcome but the argument on behalf of said outcome is particularly indefensible, it's likely that the opinion will be handed off.