I'll have more to say about Radley Balko's excellent new book imminently, but this excerpt is must-reading: Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. “To Sal, betting...
In our latest podcast, I interview George Lovell, author of the fantastic new book This Is Not Civil Rights. In addition to his new book, which examines the letters ordinary.
(This is obviously one of my visual rhetoric posts, all of which can be found here.) In my first post on "In Care Of," I discussed the importance of the.
Jeff Guo has a good piece at The New Republic on how Michelle Rhee's StudentsLast First organization has centered on Tennessee to push its anti-teacher union agenda. Yet despite the massive amount of money it and its corporate supporters have poured into Tennessee politics, they have...
In the aftermath of all the attention paid to corporations like McDonald's trying to recreate the Gilded Age through debit card "paychecks" that force workers to pay to get their.
Eric Lichtblau has a major story about the expansions of the surveillance state the court designed to check it has facilitated: In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s.
Not even SEK can claim something like this, what with incredibly lame wingnut attempts at parody now including me as a central figure in their posts: We're having a giant girlfriend unwrapping party at the Asexual Alliance this week, y'all ought to think about coming out....
In 1939, the reprehensible Martin Dies, chair of the House Un-American Activities Committee, invited one Leon Trotsky to testify before his committee on the evils of Joseph Stalin (PDF in.
As various posters on this site have been noting for a while, the crucial problem with the Supreme Court's decision disemboweling the Voting Rights Act is its inability to explain.
This is some pretty gruesome stuff: Governors united across party lines to protest the potential loss of their pet C-130s and other planes. Members of Congress lined up behind the potent lobbying pressure of the Guard and the reserves. The result: The Air Force was ordered not...
via the place I steal all my content... I feel like we should have a caption contest for this wingnut doodle, but I'm afraid it's too incomprehensible for that sort.
Happy Tenth Birthday to Crooked Timber! As part of the run-up to LGM's 10th (May 31, 2014), we'll be slowly restoring the archives from our first year, a project that.