The cottage industry of liberals who were convinced that John McCain's brief fit of pique against George W. Bush reflected his Real Authentic Moderate Liberal self (I still think this installment of Jacob Weisberg's McCain hagiography project is definitive) was an especially silly episode in...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Jeebus. If the webcam revealed Advil in the medicine cabinet, hopefully this was accompanied by plenty of strip searches -- I mean, won't someone please think of the children?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Megan's post about Lindsay's high fashion for little money reminds me that I've forgotten to congratulate Darcy for earning a well-deserved Juno nomination for Infernal Machines even if he was.
In an unusual move for his campaign, Mickey Kaus has done something. In this case, issuing a press release venting some resentment over the fact that the Democratic Party's leader is supporting the Democrat in the state's Democratic primary. You will be surprised to learn,...
This Charlie Savage article about the politics of Obama's Supreme Court nominations starts off by reminding us that attempting to preempt conservative claims that a Supreme Court nominee is a.
You can't get a much better example of whining being central to one's political identity than John Nolte's alleged decade-long boycott of TV because of the possibility that someone might.
One might think that the contest for the worst crime against aesthetics to have been committed in the name of of the teabaggers has been definitively ended by Victoria Jackson (clearer audio here for any masochists out there.) And yet, I'm not sure -- while...
With the Imperial Grand Poobah-Elect of the Liberal Elites Who Discuss Literatchoor Association having already weighed in, it makes me feel embarrassed that my more modest responsibilities have delayed by.
See Amanda and Lindsay on the new anti-abortion law enacted by the Nebraska legislature. As I used to write about a lot in the vast majority of the archives that.
In comments, Ed Whelan urges us to consider his response to the Emily Bazelon article I linked earlier. If there's supposed to be some sort of devastating response to Bazelon there, though, I must confess that I can't find it. Most of his...
Emily Bazelon's article on Diane Wood and abortion is essential reading. The idea that there is something radical in her giving a particular and plausible interpretation of the notoriously vague.
Matt has an interesting response to my article about Obama's next judicial nominee, and I respond here. To elaborate a bit, I'm somewhat puzzled by Matt's argument that a concern.