I have a piece up about today’s Roberts Court atrocity. Read the whole etc., but I wanted to highlight a couple points. First, let’s be clear about Congress’s authority and why the majority’s focus on state sovereignty is utterly misguided, by starting with what Roberts would prefer to obfuscate, the relevant text of the United […]
Month: June 2013
It seems the Roberts Court also made a film expressing its views on American race relations and the proper order between the races. You can watch it below.
I will have more on today’s appalling disemboweling of the Voting Rights Act imminently. In the meantime, enjoy this column about why conservative constitutional arguments against affirmative ac
It’s worth having an open thread just to express anger and frustration over our Plessy-nostalgic Supreme Court ruling the most important section of the most important piece of civil rights legislation passed since the 14th Amendment unconstitutional. Will anti-lynching laws soon be ruled unconstitutional as well? We’d probably have to pray for a Kennedy swing […]
The man who made Iraq, massive upper-class tax cuts and Sam Alito possible, while reassuring us all the while that a man who governed to the right of the Texas legislature was a harmless moderate indi
Not only does reasonable moderate Sam Alito show us that there is no difference between the two parties and elections don’t matter and therefore because of Edward Snowden we should all vote for
I knew it was over when the Bruins brought Bob Stanley in to play goal. I don’t dislike the Bruins generally, but given that Jacobs was a driving force behind the lockout I’d say there’s some justice there.
The labor historian Jefferson Cowie on why the government desperately needs to recommit to and strengthen the Fair Labor Standards Act: It’s true that we are in the middle of a seismic shift in the
What a wonderful image of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense force in action! Note the sinking PLAN carrier Liaoning in the background. Obviously there’s been some sort of dreadful accident
The season finale of Mad Men, “In Care Of,” contains an inordinate number of what I call “Oh Really?” reverse shots. They typically don’t involve dialogue — and the episode will end with one that doesn’t — but at the beginning of the episode it does. It’s also odd because it substitutes a flashback for […]
It doesn’t really surprise me that the big whiskey corporations are doing such a good job of pivoting to the demand for higher quality hooch.* They have the preexisting capital investment, a ves
The Voting Rights Act might be the main course, but the Civil Rights Act is the appetizer. I alluded to this in the article, but it’s worth repeating Ginsburg’s examples of what, according