Ryan Braun's suspension has been overturned. As is generally the case with drug warriors, MLB is furious that pesky things like "due process" and "checks to ensure that evidence is reliable" are getting in the way of a good witch hunt. Anyway, given this kind...
Author: Scott Lemieux
It's not that easy to get Greenwald and Chait to agree on a foreign policy issue, but the genocidal ravings of Little Rambo Carlson seem to have done the trick.
The reporting of Garrett Epps and Dahlia Lithwick suggests that the lawyers representing Xavier Alvarez -- the habitual liar convicted of violating the Stolen Valor Act -- had trouble coming up with.
"The problem with the auto bailout is that evil workers actually benefited. Had all the money gone to obscenely wealthy parasites like Mitt Romney, they might have been fine." ...shorter #2: "The consequences of teenagers not using contraception proves that contraception is evil."
A good first step, anyway. More when I have a chance to read the opinion, although we can be confident that the George W. Bush appointee Jeffrey White is some.
I would like to buck the conventional wisdom, but I agree with everybody that the grant of cert in Fisher v. UT Austin is almost certainly the end of affirmative.
The landmark criminal procedure decisions of the Warren Court have generally not been overruled, but this is somewhat misleading; in many cases, the precedents formally remain standing, but have been interpreted in ways that give them much less bite. With Miranda v. Arizona, the dilution...
Shorter Alana Goodman: I'm a contemporary conservative. Of course I don't understand the concept of "consent." For that matter, I don't know why people get so upset about forced sterilization.
Diane Ravitch's piece is so essential I'm reluctant to excerpt from it at all. But these key points stand out to me: The new evaluation system pretends to be balanced,.
The one encouraging thing to take from the imminent passage of the mandatory sexual assault law in Virginia is that we finally have an arbitrary abortion regulation that is highly unpopular. The First Rule of Social Conservatism, of course, is that social conservatism is much...
There are a number of problems with Michael Gerson's column in the Washington Post arguing that the Obama administration's application of contraceptive coverage requirements to institutions providing secular services but.
Corey Robin makes a nice point, linking up conservertarian defenses of the Virginia mandatory rape law with von Mises's sexism. Admittedly, McArdle and Cowen are making somewhat different arguments, and.