The newly Republican Arkansas legislature has gone full metal wingnut, overriding the governor's veto and enacting a statute that would make obtaining an abortion after 12 weeks illegal. It's not actually easy for states to come up with laws that clearly violate Casey. The way...
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Anna Holmes has a very good piece of media criticism, about how an uncharacteristically sloppy piece by Jodi Kantor led to a series of articles criticizing Sheryl Sanberg's new book.
The lineup the Yankees are going to be fielding until late May might have less power than the Mariners. The Yankees could certainly still win the division, but they can.
Perlstein, in an excellent piece noting that Bob Woodward "is utterly useless in explaining how Washington works. But he is almost uniquely useful as an object lesson in displaying how Washington works—especially its elite punditry division," has some particularly damning evidence: He's something different now:...
A minority in the Senate is refusing to allow anyone to be confirmed to the D.C. Circuit. Because, of course, it would be bad to dilute the wingnut flavor of.
Great point about the how the tragic death of Len Bias turned into a disastrous policy legacy: Bias's death loosed all kinds of terrible ideas on the nation, foremost among.
FDR's first inaugural was 80 years ago yesterday, and Ira Katznelson has a terrific book about the New Deal. My review is up at the Prospect: The New Deal—which Katznelson argues should be seen as encompassing the period between the election of FDR in 1932...
Jesus Christ, what a pathetic operation Tucker Carlson is operating.
What if I asked you if a once inexplicably prominent liberal blogger was also on the receiving end of the same blood money as Josh Trevino, who would you guess?.
Shorter A. Scott Berg: As Woodrow Wilson shows, all Obama needs to do is sit down with Republicans and tell them to cut the bullshit. The fact that Wilson failed the one time I discuss when his agenda differed from the a priori preferences of...
Calling Jeff Sessions a "wonk McCarthyite" is indeed far too charitable; the former term implies that he knows something about anything. I believe this event calls for a link to.
A terrific article by Haley Sweetland Edwards about how the passage of progressive legislation is always the beginning, rather than the end, of policy struggles. Particularly when it comes to.