Jared Remy will be spending the rest of his life where he should be spending it, in prison. You will probably not be surprised that he used his statement to engage in some blaming of his victim: He described himself as “the bad apple” and called Martel “an angel,” but also appeared to blame Martel. […]
Month: May 2014
I have a piece up at the Prospect about yesterday’s modestly encouraging Eighth Amendment case: The fact that someone as clearly mentally impaired as Hall had his death sentence upheld by the Fl
In my last post I touched briefly on use of the phrase “the friend zone.” Here’s where I hate the term: Saying that women have put you in the friend zone implies that even a little n
A very useful primer from Jon Cohn on the forthcoming war over crucial new EPA regulations of carbon emissions. A particularly key point, addressing the specious claim that Obama is defying Congress: Actually, the opposite is true. The Clean Air Act of 1970, first signed into law by Richard Nixon and then amended twice, requires […]
The New York Post is a disgrace, in case you forgot.
Some Tuesday links re: the horrific California shootings… Ophelia Benson has some interesting thoughts on reaction to the reaction to the shootings here and here and here. Amanda Marcotte talks
I was on the Graphic Policy radio show/podcast last night discussing, among other things, the many excellent points Steve Attewell made about the film’s historical context, as well as many of the sorts of points I make about how film works. You can listen to it below. New Pop Culture Podcasts with graphicpolicy on BlogTalkRadio […]
The long-term unemployed are doomed to poverty by Republicans who will not pass any bill extending unemployment benefits. This sort of Republican governance advances their program to recreate New Gild
You mean ending prohibition doesn’t lead to massive spikes in crime and other conservative horror stories of what happens when you end the war on drugs? Wow, who could have guessed. The sky is n
If you have the right connections and the right kind of worldview, like Robert Kagan, being disastrously wrong about everything is never a bar to getting a cover story to share your thoughts about how the country can make yet more disastrous mistakes. Presumably this goes for your relatives and friends too. You may remember […]
Thank you John Roberts and Republican statehouses: The failure of some states to expand Medicaid is leaving a quarter-million veterans without health insurance. Many assume that all of the nation̵
is the name of an important new book on a topic the author, Joe Carens, played a major role in bringing to prominence in political theory. His 1987 article begins thusly: Borders have guards and the g