Debo Adegbile, Obama’s pick to head the Civil Rights Division, was rejected by the Senate, (ostensibly) because he assisted in a successful appeal in a death penalty case: In other words, the extraordinary stupid arguments that Republican Senators raised about Abu-Jamal shouldn’t be allowed to conceal their real agenda: kneecapping federal efforts to do things […]
Month: March 2014
Given that I also write for The Onion, I feel I should point out that this article is not from The Onion. But if we were better people — did less of that awful sinning against the Lord and stuff
The rather epic fail by a regular at the top of this thread is amusing, but I actually think there’s an important lesson to be extracted from the wreckage. Political science blogs have had the s
Several commenters have noted Adolph Reed’s response to critics of his Harper‘s cover story, which is worth reading. Near the top of the article, he makes an important refinement to his argument: There’s a vast gulf between “elections don’t matter” and “shut up and lineup behind this season’s Democrat.” For the record, I don’t argue […]
Two things. First, my latest at the Diplomat noodles on about precedent in international politics: What precedent does the Russian invasion of Crimea set for the settlement of territorial disputes i
Over the last few years a bunch of law schools figured out that they could exploit various changes in the federal funding of education in a way that would allow them to jack up tuition radically, whil
Republican abortion policy is working out just fine in Texas. Close all the reproductive clinics that serve poor people because those sluts deserve whatever they get for having sex while ensuring abortion remains a procedure their own daughters can acquire.
Paul Ryan may be slightly disingenuous: “I think when you have the world’s super power, having a foreign policy that in my opinion is weak, and a defense policy now that shows weakness, I think it
If they decide to create a Mount Rushmore for failing upwards, one slot is already filled: In the biggest shuffling of Microsoft’s executive ranks since the company’s new chief executive, Satya Na
Jonas Dahlberg’s memorial plan for the 2011 massacre of the 77 young people in Oslo and Utoya, Norway is incredibly powerful and moving.
This is alarming: According to the South Korean government, on Tuesday a South China Airlines plane carrying 220 civilians narrowly missed being hit by a North Korean missile after it flew into the mi
Henry Farrell’s reply to Conor Friedersdorf’s mess of a column this morning. But I want to highlight one particularly clueless passage: I don’t regard homosexuality as sinful. Unlike