Dahlia Lithwick is good on the Montana Supreme Court's rejection of Citizens United. It probably wouldn't save it from being overturned anyway, but the angle I would take in the same situation if I wanted to join the majority (I would probably have joined Nelson's dissent)...
Grover Cleveland and Chris Preble point out the nifty DoD budget cost cutting tool at the NYT. It's not terribly hard to get to $450 billion, especially if you cut.
Gordon Hirabayashi, a civil rights hero who was arrested while attending my alma mater and ended his career teaching at my native province's flagship university, passed away at age 93. .
I am deeply honored to learn that my This Day in Labor History series has won this year's History News Network Cliopatria Award for "Best Series of Posts." According to HNN: In "This Day in Labor History" Erik Loomis of Lawyers, Guns & Money documents significant...
The problem isn't that he's uniquely bad. The problem is that for a Republican he's pretty typical; he's just blunter about the real goals of the anti-choice lobby.
Barack Obama has indeed been unduly timid when it comes to dealing with constitutional envelope-pushing by congressional Republicans, with the capitulation over the debt ceiling being the most recent example. .
As those of you on Facebook already know, I'm in a situation similar to the Great Library Entanglement of October 2007. Point being, a number of you have written asking why I haven't been blogging more frequently, and the short answer is that I haven't really had...
it turns out he's somewhat opposed, if we can interpret "social programs led to the collapse of the British Empire" and "the British National Healthcare system is a devastating program.
David Brooks has an argument that the co-winner of yesterday's caucuses is a different type of conservatism. Unlike that upper-class swell Mitt Romney, you see, Santorum offers a frothy agenda.
Doyle is very good on the Dowdesque classism inherent in the much-discussed Kate Bolick Atlantic cover story.
A very nice Washington Post write-up on the great Local Roots, the farmers' co-op in Wooster, Ohio. I taught at the College of Wooster last year and so spent a.
I know we all enjoyed last night's clown show. But let's remember that this is a mere midway entertainment compared to the world's big story: climate change. Maybe the one.