The great Dahlia Lithwick explains why Democrats should not vote for Hans von Spakovsky, just as he would prefer that they not vote for anything else:Von Spakovsky currently sits on the FEC as a result of a recess appointment made by President Bush in January...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The man is unbelievable. Now if they can get him home from second......Ack. Damn false hope.
Mr Shandy asks an important question: now that The Left is no longer blogging, can its presence in the blogospehere ever be regained? Alas, until Ward Churchill starts blogging, I'm.
I'm not really sure I understand the distinction that Matt is trying to draw here. As always when questions of motivations rather than actions come up, I think we have to return to George Wallace. Even politicians who make overtly racist appeals may be much...
If anything is clear about the politics of aboriton, it's that criminalization does relatively little to protect fetal life but a great deal to endanger the health of women. Jill.
Beauty pageant -- or, as their organizers would prefer to call them. "scholarship pageant" winners -- ripped off and denied their scholarship money.
Jeff Rosen has a very good piece on John Paul Stevens in the Times Magazine. The central point is that Stevens isn't so much a liberal as someone who plays one on the Rehnquist and Burger Courts:Stevens, however, is an improbable liberal icon. “I don’t...
Those of us discouraged by Clinton's imminent victories in the Democratic primary got some great news: George Bush has predicted that 1)Clinton will win the nomination, and 2)the GOP will.
I think I 80% agree with the Editors in re: Belichick. My disagreement is that (unlike, say, Barry Bonds) Belichick actually cheated, repeatedly breaking a clear rule he was repeatedly.
This reminds me of the fact that Reynolds used to think that if the Euro fell it was evidence that the European economic model didn't work. Oddly, the currency market metric seems less important to Reynolds now; I wonder why?
Usually, when a self-evident piece of shit comes down the pike the Times will assign one of their bench critics to the task of panning it. But every once in.
Like Cara, I think I'll pass. Any allegedly feminist project that divides women into the category of "good" and "bad" based on how often they have sex, or uses the.