I recommend both Kevin and Adam. The standards laid out for when a targeted killing can be justified are not, in themselves, unreasonable: First, the U.S. government has determined, after a thorough and careful review, that the individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Say this for Andy McCarthy: no satirist would be crazy enough to create him.
This report by Susan Greene is a first-rate piece of work, and should be read in full. A key paragraph: Among the misperceptions about solitary confinement is that it’s used.
This, from Silver's Super Tuesday preview, is what I mean when I say that (implausible as it seems in the abstract) that Mittens has been inevitable since Perry imploded: In Ohio, most of the delegates (48) are awarded winner-take-all by Congressional district. Note, however, that...
How Barack Obama can remain in office after having attended a play, I have no idea. Hasn't Charles Murray already explained* that people who enjoy any leisure activity besides eating.
There's a lot of speculation that Santorum's emphasis on crackpot anti-contraception positions hurt him greatly among women, perhaps costing him the Michigan primary. The evidence for this is actually more.
It contradicts the very core of my worldview to have anything good to say about anything associated with in any way with the Maple Leafs, but obviously I can have nothing but praise for this. Hopefully another year out of the playoffs will give Burke,...
A petition worth signing. In a related story, the set of abortion regulations about to become law in Virginia is still really terrible policy. ...I like this response, although surely.
It's impressive that Rusty is being such a misogynist creep that Santorum feels the need to even pretend to distance himself from him, but I agree with Steve that it's.
Matt and Jamelle say most of what needs to be said about Olympia Snowe's self-serving farewell to all that nasty partisanship. Regrettably, the essentially indefensible supermajority rules she champions in the op-ed gave her a vastly disproportionate amount of power to affect public policy, and...
Huh, I had no idea that Reggie Dunlop's coaching techniques were so influential.
I've been meaning to say more George Edwards's masterwork On Deaf Ears, and since in a recent thread we had someone articulating the full-on bully pulpit myth in this thread,.