As G.M.'s healthy profit makes clear, it's been a striking policy success that Republicans in Congress were wrong about. For a strikingly non-prescient column, your moment of Bobo from 2009. The giveaway is the bit about "educated buyers." But, in fact, as I knew from...
Author: Scott Lemieux
As Lithwick says, the only problem with the Obama administration's actions is that it took too long.
...is just bog-standard reactionary Republican politics. It certainly has nothing to do with "small government."
It many have been withdrawn in South Dakota. But similar legislation is now being considered in Nebraska and Iowa. I'm so old I remember when legitimating terrorism was considered a bad thing. Anyway, I just hope that pro-choice groups don't try to draw attention to...
The funniest reaction to the Obama administration's salutary decision to not defend the constitutionality of Section 3 of DOMA comes, needless to say, from Jeff Goldtsein: Of course, he doesn’t.
The Obama administration is refusing to defend this constitutionality of DOMA as it applies to legally married same-sex couples. Sometimes, elections can have positive consequences!
Dahlia Lithwick and Adam Liptak have good articles about yesterday's oral argument in Bond v. U.S. The substantive issue of the case is whether a law implementing the 1993 Chemical Weapons convention can be used to bring federal charges against a woman who poisoned a...
D.C. federal district judge Gladys Kessler issued the latest ruling, reinforcing the partisan trend. Her opinion is a very solid piece of work, and provides a good account of the.
I like this Peter Beinart much better than the old one. Where the women writers at? Here. "Fiscal hawk," in Villager, means nothing more than "a willingness to attack programs.
In any discussion of draconian anti-choice policies that apply pre-viability, the probability of an anti-choice apologist using non-sequiturs about (already illegal) post-viability abortions in order to evade the underlying issue approaches 1. Addendum: whether it's in blog comment sections or the New York Times op-ed...
Nothing is more damaging to the abortion criminalization lobby than people who actually take the stuff other anti-choicers merely pretend to believe seriously. Investigating miscarriages is appalling, barbaric public policy.
George Will is a serious intellectual, so just like other conservatives when he expresses a belief that protests and procedural gimmicks constitute an attempt to "repeal an election," this must.