The story of Emma Sullivan is, in its small way, inspiring. She stood her ground, Kansas's WATB-in-chief backed off, and her school administrators seemed to figure out in time that demanding an apology would violate the First Amendment. Sometimes standing up for yourself is not...
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David Weigel and Kaili Joy Gray hove more on the excellent point Paul raised yesterday. Not only have a lot of Republicans and journalists conflated sexual harassment and consensual affairs.
I suppose Edward Jay Epstien's is at least more creative than Naomi Wolf's, but it's no more convincing. ...see also Irin Carmon.
Andrew Martin has a fascinating article about how things work in a winger-dominated DA's office in Illinois. First, people are convicted based almost entirely on not-very-plausible confessions extracted from the kind of marathon high-pressure interrogations that will produce many false positives. And then, once...
The threat of his becoming President of the United States has passed, but Texans (including the many who didn't vote for him) remain stuck with him.
Corey Robin has more, and it's crucial reading: Like many critics of state coercion in America, Wolf seems to assume that political repression requires or entails national coordination and centralized.
...apparently not running again. He will be missed. He's the only prominent political figure I've ever had an actual conversation with, and he was just as whip-smart as you would expect.
A Ross Douthat column I agree with almost entirely. In particular, I agree that JFK deserves far more of the blame for Vietnam than he usually gets, and I don't.
Naomi Wolf has another conspiracy theory she wishes you to consider: In other words, for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of its chain of.
Not that Christmas songs done jukebox-musical style for those who find American Idol a little too edgy sounds promising in any case, but this has the potential to be a historic meeting of hacks, like Deep Blue Something covering Better Than Ezra or Joel Schumacher...
Unfathomably terrible news for longtime friend of LGM James Joyner. Sincerest consolations to James and his family.
Again, I can't really blame the campaign journalists for pretending that the GOP nomination race is still a going concern, but for anyone tempted to think that the Union Leader's.