I don't have firm views on the new California standards for consent on college campuses. We should see how they work and if they're effective. But, particularly in light of Jon Chait's essay, I did want to emphasize a few points about the affirmative consent...
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Sophia Katz's essay recounting her sexual assault by Stephen Tully Dierks got a lot of attention because of its implications for the Brooklyn literary scene, but it's an excellent piece.
Isn't the real reason for McDonald's slumping sales and potential slow decline that it makes a horrible burger and that a generation perhaps somewhat more sophisticated on food than the.
This amicus brief is not one of the Obama administration's better moments.
One story I was unable to talk about after my computer theft earlier this month was the Philadelphia School Reform Commission cancelling the contract with the city's teachers unilaterally. It.
Stand Your Ground laws are horrible by themselves. But the idea that these laws are meant to allow citizens to defend themselves is laughable. The laws' real meaning is to.
Atrios is making sense: What was especially maddening about Saletan-esque arguments over the years, aside from their clear wrongness, was that he seemed to truly believe that if only pro-choice people would admit it was all so icky and horrible then anti-abortion people would just...
Upon arriving at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, this is what greets you. It is the most Orange County thing ever. Yet this cannot even compare to what I.
Blake Lively.
The Supreme Court exception to the First Amendment. A proposed crackpot anti-abortion rights in Tennessee. The Supreme Court should have granted cert in the same-sex marriage cases. A great con artist story. "Won't someone please not think of the children?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" I don't find it terribly...
Katha Pollitt has a fantastic looking new book about abortion rights coming out. This, in turn, has led to some excellent writing from Laurie Abraham, Hanna Rosin, Lindsay Beyerstein, and.
Paul Krugman points out yet again why, as the annual deficit continues to shrink, "deficit hawks" remain undeterred by the spectacular inaccuracy of their predictions: But what about people who.