Dayen with another infuriating story: "Franz Kafka lives… he works at Bank of America." Judge Christopher Klein's words kick off an incredible ruling in a federal bankruptcy court in California.
Politico reports that Neil Gorsuch's academic writings "borrow" from other authors. This is the publication's squeamish way of phrasing the fact that Gorsuch put his name* to texts that lifted.
The Washington Post, October 24, 1980: The executive board of the militant organization that represents the nation's aerial traffic cops has endorsed Ronald Reagan for the presidency. Robert D. Poli,.
Kirsten Gillibrand is pretty clearly running for president in 2020 and I like just about everything about her, including the quote above. If Warren runs, she would have my vote.
There sure are a lot of coastal elitists out there: I forget who tweeted this insight before I originated it, but if Clinton had been elected while losing the popular.
I am currently reading Finis Dunaway's excellent 2015 book Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images. Examining many of the most iconic environmental images of the last.
Ruth Marcus reaches deep into her nostalgia file, and the lead she's giving you died sometime during the Eisenhower administration: To Democratic senators wavering on whether to filibuster: Don’t do.
Neil Gorsuch will not be the first Supreme Court nominee to be filibustered. And the previous nominee to fill his seat wasn't filibustered because the majority party in the Supreme.
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