Tom Steyer won't be running for Barbara Boxer's Senate seat in California. Steyer seems like a good guy, a committed environmentalist, but this is almost certainly excellent. news. for. Democrats. First, as Rebecca Leber says, his money is almost certainly better spent on a variety of...
An update on Major General Post: A prominent lawmaker is calling for an investigation of a major general's reported comments blasting officers as treasonous if they work with Congress against.
Links to various arguments about why Roe was correctly decided and why it matters can be found here. Via Edroso, Mollie Hemmingway is concern-trollingly upset that a Republican abortion ban.
I received a request for a list of environmental policy/history books. I make no claims to being an authoritative source here and others will have different books, but here are 10 books on the history of environmental policy I find useful. I am thinking of these...
In some of today's least surprising political news: Federal authorities are expected to arrest Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges Thursday, the New York Times reported overnight. The newspaper.
Here's some interesting newly available books on and about the Civil War from the 19th and early 20th centuries. They include Pain and Anaesthetics: An Essay, from 1862, by Valentine.
The government's reply to the ACA troofers has been submitted, and as you would expect it's devastating. Section I should be sufficient in itself -- it is clear simply reading the statute properly that exchanges established by HHS are "exchanges established by the State" as the...
... drop it over at Lance's place. I like to think of Lance as LGM's Ozzie Altobello.
Bjork speaks of sexism in music: Pitchfork: When it was originally misreported that Vulnicura was produced by Arca, instead of co-produced by you and Arca, it reminded me of the.
Bill Galston, the prescient analyst cryogenically frozen at a 1991 DLC meeting, has some Deep Thoughts about the SOTU: Still, as Mr. Obama began speaking, a key uncertainty remained: What balance would he strike between the desire to shape the political terrain for 2016 and the...
Anyone interested in the law school crisis and the reform movements it has engendered ought to read this state of the (dis)union message from Esq. Never. Here's a brief excerpt.
Look, everyone knows that Bill BeliCHEAT only won because of those times they videotaped something. Why, they were never really able to put a decent team together after that. But.