"Home Run" might be a little premature, but at the least a stand-up triple of an appointment: Justice Sotomayor has completely dispelled the fear on the left that her background as a prosecutor would align her with the court’s more conservative members on criminal justice...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Since SEK brought it up... Since what I have to say is predominantly negative, I should say that Freedom is not without its pleasures and accomplishments. Ruth Franklin's bottom line,.
I'm glad Obama did this. I think that the following points should be obvious, although there seems to be substantial disagreement about them: Convicted persons who have paid their debt.
Indeed. Although if desperation can provide an incentive for Levine Lieberman to shepherd major civil rights legislation through the Senate and otherwise actually start acting like a blue-state Democrat, desperation has an upside!
Um, not really so much: Libertarianism gets marginalized in American politics because it doesn’t fit into the two-party paradigm. Well, that's one version of the underlying cause and effect. A.
Fortunately and predictably, my strategy of spending Christmas break in Western Canada to escape bad weather has been effective! Plus, I saw local celebrity Theoren Fleury coming out of Costco...
Pretty much what Emily Nussbaum said.
Like Matt, I think Cotes's point here is very important: I guess I can agree that merely displaying the flag of a white supremacist Army, praising a group which opposed.
A few points about Michael Lind's argument here: Even if WikiLeaks is defined as a news organization, American law allows both prior injunctions halting publication of government secrets and prosecutions.
Rick Perlstein has a typically brilliant analysis. Read the whole etc., but a preview: What happened between Brown v. Board of Education and that January day in 1970 comprises some of the most monstrous inhumanity in the cruel annals of American history. Recently, in a...
Shorter Arlen Specter: "I sat on the Judiciary Committee table throughout the second Bush administration, and I still haven't spotted the sucker."
The (largely merited) hype over My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has further helped to obscure the fact that Big Boi's 2010 record was as or more accomplished, so I was.