As a follow-up to Dahlia Lithwick's excellent recent piece about the proliferation of state anti-abortion restrictions, I have a new Prospect column arguing that while in some ways these restrictions challenge the Supreme Court doctrine, the bulk of the regulations are all too consistent with...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Tony Kushner was denied an honorary degree by CUNY trustees for insufficient Likudnism. If there was a contest among the trustees to see who could commit the most egregious breach.
I suppose proposing this is like asking for a unicorn farm, but John Paul Stevens is right about what an appropriate response to Connick. v. Thompson would look like: Stevens.
The Senate Republican budget will probably require people to eat broccoli deep fried Twinkies! If they don't take their own constitutional arguments seriously, I'm certainly not going to.
Although the authoritarian tautology is the more likely outcome, using the killing of Bin Laden as a good reason to end the "War on Terror" (as opposed to trying to.
If there is an isolated terrorist attack, then there needs to be an expansion of the national security state. If a terrorist leader is killed, then there needs to be.
As Malaclypse notes in comments, GM -- bolstered by its well-reviewed, Corolla-beating entry into the compact market -- had another major leap in sales. Yeah, providing the company with the capital it could have obtained from private markets in any context but the Bush Depression...
Globe and Mail and the CBC calling a Conservative majority government, NDP not only official opposition (as widely predicted) but towards the top end of their range, Bloq wiped out..
Nearly impossible to call, because it's unclear what will happen in Quebec (where the NDP is polling well but will lack any kind of ground operation in many ridings.) Let's.
Engaging in pointless hair-splitting over which adjectives describe an acceptable emotional response to the death of OBL and which do not.
Jennifer Rubin provides the inevitable spin, arguing that the killing of OBL vindicates the Bush approach of using military force -- including an invasion of a country that had nothing.
Many folks on the Twitter seems convinced that the good news about Bin Laden effectively ends the 2012 campaign. This certainly doesn't hurt. But I would point to George H.W..