Hobby Lobby puts its pro-life, pro-child policies into practice: When a very pregnant Felicia Allen applied for medical leave from her job at Hobby Lobby three years ago, one might think that the company best known for denying its employees insurance coverage of certain contraceptives—on...
Month: July 2014
5CA holds what should be obvious -- Mississippi's most recent anti-abortion statutes violate a woman's reproductive rights: Mississippi’s last abortion clinic won a major victory at the conservative 5th Circuit.
Your World War I graphic of the day: A couple thoughts: The Western Front and the Isonzo Front give an incomplete understanding of the static nature of World War I.
Count Jonathan Chait among the long-time supporters of Israel depressed about the nation's dead-end stance toward Gaza: The story further reveals that Netanyahu appeared on several occasions to approach the brink of agreement, but pulled back in the face of right-wing pressure within his coalition....
Big news for workers' rights today. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled McDonald's a "joint employer." This basically invalidates the claim used by fast food corporations that franchise out.
What is life like inside the immigrant detention centers the U.S. has set up to house the thousands of migrants fleeing Central American gang and drug violence? I went down.
Josh Blackman offers another attempt to argue that Congress actually intended the federal exchanges the ACA established not to work. Inevitably, it's transparently wrong because like many ideological opponents of the ACA he appears to be incapable of understanding what proponents of the ACA were...
One of the endless series of ad hoc legal challenges to the ACA is an argument (touted by, among others, syndicated columnist William F. George) that the ACA is unconstitutional.
You've probably heard about the latest horribly botched execution: Wood’s execution dragged on for so long that at the midpoint, his lawyers filed an emergency appeal to stop the procedure.
I'm not saying this is on the level of LBJ ordering pants, but Richard Nixon talking about panda mating patterns is not something you expected to hear when you woke up this morning. And look, he got his information from Bob Haldeman, so you know...
All, We've now completed a week-long comment registration trial. This post should serve as an open thread for how this week has gone. Note that I'm still processing a few.
Another domino falls.