It could be argued that Troy Tulowitzki has been one of Colorado's more effective players this September.
Author: Scott Lemieux
As noted in comments to Scott's presentation of the Republican Party's disturbingly honest self-conception, it's probably for the best that they focused almost exclusively on white people. After all, the.
I'm so old I remember getting lectures about how the Republicans were the Party Of Ideas. ...see also.
Sure, Felix Hernandez has pitched twelve more innings of significantly higher per-inning quality than C.C. Sabathia. But unlike Sabathia. he doesn't Know How To Win (TM). I mean, give Sabathia a three-run lead and the game is basically over; he just smells the victory. If...
To state the obvious, this non-action is awful both on the merits (making the permanent extension of Bush's upper-class tax cuts more likely) and as politics (name me the district.
The odds that I will agree with David Bernstein over Dahlia Lithwick are...not good, but in this case Bernstein is right. I've been trying to condense the paper I presented.
Krugman makes a good case. And, yes, the idea that the "messaging" from someone no non-professional pays any attention to is more important than their ability to do the job is absurd, even in narrow political terms. Even if this wasn't the consistent finding of...
It never ends.
In convenient video form: Hyde: The Status Quo Is Not OK from Center for Reproductive Rights on Vimeo.
Adam Cohen notes Antonin Scalia once again asserting that the Constitution does not protect gender equality. His reasoning is superficially "originalist": Indeed, Justice Scalia likes to present his views as highly principled — he's not against equal rights for women or anyone else; he's just...
I strongly recommend Dahlia Lithwick's article on the pending execution of Teresa Lewis, which covers some of the same issues of paternalism and the law I alluded to yesterday. I.
It's hard to argue against the proposition that Peretz benefits from one.